Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 14:03:51 -1000, Lynn Wheeler wrote:

http://www.decosta.com/Nomad/tales/history.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomad_software
One could say PRINT ACROSS MONTH SUM SALES BY DIVISION and receive a
report that would have taken many hundreds of lines of Cobol to
produce.

Context: this was the early 1970s, when relational databases were still
mostly unheard-of. It’s clear it took many ideas from SQL.

... the movements to object orientation and outsourcing have
stagnated acceptance.

The object orientation is best left to the application implementing the
actual business logic. My attitude to query languages is that the database
should just stick to being a big, dumb associative data store.

Oh, and object-relational mappers are a waste of time.