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Re:Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto clie... by hedora on Friday March 20, 2026 @09:26PM (#47463115)
I came here to suggest COBOL as a better fit, then saw your comment a few levels up in this thread.

Out of curiosity, does your implementation use CODASYL?

(For people that don't pay much attention to historical software systems, most CODASYL implementations were similar to JSON document databases, so going that way isn't as crazy as it sounds.)

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Re:Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto clie... by FormerLabFred on Saturday March 21, 2026 @04:59AM (#47465328)
Great comment! Thanks!

No CODASYL, the JSON parser is hand-rolled Fortran with a depth-tracking key scanner

CODASYL not a crazy direction for the feed composer

Got more depth to explore here, still early :)

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Re:Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto clie... by hedora on Monday March 23, 2026 @01:12AM (#47485699)
CODASYL is deeply integrated with COBOL; I'm not sure it ever even worked with fortran. (I was asking about the new COBOL version you mentioned.)
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