Re: Article on new mainframe use

According to Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid>:

On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 17:33:29 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:
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COBOL was designed for computers that took
their inputs from mag tapes or card readers and sent their output to
printers or other tapes.

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Precisely my point. That left it unprepared for the coming of relational
databases and SQL. And indeed interactive computing in business use.
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I see that IBM has JSON GENERATE and JSON PARSE for just this situation.

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Not standard COBOL though, is it?

Beats me, I don't have a recent COBOL standard and I don't feel like paying
$278 for a copy. I see that MicroFocus has the same JSON stuff so it's not
just an IBM extension.

But then, COBOL was never quite IBM’s thing ...

Uh, on what planet?  IBM has had COBOL on their mainframes since the 705 III.

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