Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 2/27/25 3:04 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 07:43:08 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
 

My COBOL days didn't involve any database stuff.

 COBOL was never designed for it.

   But OFTEN pressed into service.
   It was sold as the 'all-purpose biz language' and
   for a good decade+ it WAS what you used for such
   purposes.
   You CAN make basic DBs with COBOL. It's not all
   THAT hard. Nothing super-flexible, just essentially
   "functional". Sometimes that's all that's needed.
   In the 60s and early 70s ... GOOD ENOUGH.

Mind you, I've managed to avoid any sort of DBMS for my entire career.

 I didn’t do any courses on it, but I got into it anyway, since pretty much
any online work these days is going to involve a database at some point.
 Interfacing to SQL from a high-level language like Python is actually
quite pleasant.

   Ummmmmm ... SQL from *anything* isn't especially "pleasant'  :-)
   Still think multi-value DBs are superior.