From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>
Subject: Re: Java and Python have just discovered "record" type finally after 40 years.
Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 10:43:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u3qagm$2jhge$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u3q03n$2iba1$1@dont-email.me>
On 14/05/2023 07:46, J-P. Rosen wrote:
> AFAIR, COBOL didn't have types, but you could define a variable LIKE
> another one.
>
>> However, Wikipedia says that the COBOL record structure inspired
>> records for Pascal.
>>
>> Early LISP languages did not have record types, AFAIK. But you could
>> of course use lists to program record-like data structures.
> Of course, in LISP there is only one structure, for data and programs
> alike: the list!
>
TBH, I don't really remember anything of COBOL apart from pictures and
columns.
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-12 17:50 Java and Python have just discovered "record" type finally after 40 years Nasser M. Abbasi
2023-05-12 18:58 ` richardthiebaud
2023-05-12 21:33 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2023-05-13 7:13 ` Niklas Holsti
2023-05-13 11:18 ` Luke A. Guest
2023-05-13 16:53 ` Niklas Holsti
2023-05-14 6:46 ` J-P. Rosen
2023-05-14 7:20 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2023-05-14 9:49 ` Luke A. Guest
2023-05-14 9:43 ` Luke A. Guest [this message]
2023-05-14 9:45 ` Luke A. Guest
2023-05-14 10:29 ` Niklas Holsti
2023-05-14 10:37 ` Ben Bacarisse
2023-05-14 10:39 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2023-05-14 15:10 ` J-P. Rosen
2023-05-14 15:14 ` Ben Bacarisse
2023-05-14 16:56 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2023-05-15 1:11 ` Ben Bacarisse
2023-05-15 10:44 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2023-05-17 0:24 ` Ben Bacarisse
2023-05-14 12:46 ` Bill Findlay
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