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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 08:04:48 -0000 (UTC)
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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.

> 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.