[Info-vax] General Availability of 9.2 for x86-64

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/20/2022 8:14 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Johnny Billquist  <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>> So we have people here who blame academia for language standards. We
>> have people who blame academia for the lack of interest in Cobol. I'm
>> sortof amazed by the ignorance. Cobol was ridiculed by almost everyone
>> long before OO had even been invented. The fact there are still a lot of
>> software around written in Cobol don't make it a good language, or a
>> language that makes sense to have in any curriculum.
> 
> The thing about COBOL is that it's a data description language and a
> programming language all wrapped up together.  There aren't very many
> other systems like that.  Datapoint tried one, DEC sort of tried one,
> but there weren't many attempts to replace it and none of them really
> caught on.  RPGII kind of caught on for a little while.

I am not a Cobol person, but is Cobol more data description than
any other language supporting records?

Arne