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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.