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

[Scott Dorsey]

=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 7/20/2022 8:14 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> 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?

Yes, that is what is cool about it.  You wind up with enormous programs
where only a tiny bit is the procedure division.
--scott


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