Re: Java and Python have just discovered "record" type finally after 40 years.

[Bill Findlay <findlaybill@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On 14 May 2023, J-P. Rosen wrote
(in article <u3q03n$2iba1$1@dont-email.me>):

> Le 13/05/2023 à 18:53, Niklas Holsti a écrit:
> > > What about COBOL and LISP?
> >
> >
> > As I understand it (but I don't claim to be expert), the early COBOL
> > languages could describe the structure of file records, and of
> > working-storage objects, as nested sequences of components and
> > sub-records, but each such description defined a _single_ "record"
> > object, not a "record" data-type that could have many instances. So if
> > you wanted to have two record objects with the same structure, you had
> > to duplicate the whole record description.
> AFAIR, COBOL didn't have types, but you could define a variable LIKE
> another one.

LIKE is PL/I.

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Bill Findlay