[Info-vax] Better languages than BASIC

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-01-11, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 22:38:55 -0500, bill wrote:
>
>> And string handling is every bit as good as any other language.
>
> Here, in Python, is the kind of dynamically-varying filter criteria I
> did for a search function in one application. Note the inclusion of
> field match checks only for fields where the user entered something:
>

[Snip example]

>
> Have you ever managed anything similar in COBOL?

For security reasons, I would have preferred to see that as a
prepared statement instead of as a concatenated SQL statement.

Simon.

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