Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "COBOL in 100 seconds" video.

  1. It was supposed to be “business-oriented” for the 1960s concept of “business data processing”. This meant fixed-field records and ISAM files, and certainly did not include dynamic string processing. Then, a decade or two later, relational databases came along, and became a rather important business need. And the best way of interfacing to these turns out to be via dynamic generation of query strings. Which COBOL can’t cope with very well. They did some nonstandard kludges to cope with this, but the reality is that even klunky old PHP is better at interfacing to relational databases than COBOL will ever be.
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