[Info-vax] Calling $CREPRC in COBOL

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/4/2022 10:34 AM, seasoned_geek wrote:
> On Sunday, July 3, 2022 at 7:22:57 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 7/3/2022 4:05 PM, seasoned_geek wrote:
>>> On Thursday, June 23, 2022 at 9:14:07 AM UTC-5, osuv... at gmail.com wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 12:08:21 AM UTC-4, Dave Froble wrote:
>>> At any rate, there is no SQL that will let you put multi-typed
>>> records in a table. The "best" you could hope for is to have the
>>> primary key fields then a BLOB object one had to hack like we did in
>>> BASIC. You would be right back to CVT$% and RSET logic. (Didn't they
>>> drop RSET and LSET from the DEC BASIC specification at some point?)
>> Not true.
>>
>> You define a super class and sub classes and your ORM framework
>> transparently stores and retrieved the different classes.
>>
>> That is basic persistence knowledge. Any young developer would
>> know that.
> 
> Well, we will ask Dave to post the TOLAS invoice (or order) record layouts for a defunct
> customer and you create a functioning VAX BASIC program using SQLite along with Superclass
> and Subclass and post it here.

It is techniques used by hundreds of thousands maybe millions of
applications.

VMS Basic would be a problem as I am not aware of any ORM
framework for VMS Basic.

(and I also suspect that VMS Basic would need some new features
to be able to create a good one)

Arne