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On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 17:33:29 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:

> COBOL was designed for computers that took
> their inputs from mag tapes or card readers and sent their output to
> printers or other tapes.

Precisely my point. That left it unprepared for the coming of relational 
databases and SQL. And indeed interactive computing in business use.

> I see that IBM has JSON GENERATE and JSON PARSE for just this situation.

Not standard COBOL though, is it?

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