why did #COBOL not take off on microcomputers? #history
on 02024-08-23some notes about #COBOL from someone who didn’t hate it that much, but had a serious bug because the compiler ate his sentence-ending period because it was in column 72.
on 02024-08-23111 questions about "embedded SQL" like, with EXEC SQL statements in the middle of your C or COBOL code containing #SQL. DB2 and Datacom/DB support embedded SQL in (IBM) assembly, but mostly it's C, C++, COBOL, Ada, Fortran, RPG, etc. Surprisingly GNU #COBOL supports it with #PostgreSQL.
on 02023-06-24