From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 12/1/2025 8:44 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   > On 12/1/2025 8:23 PM, bill wrote:   
   >> Wouldn't classes fall under OOP.   
   >   
   > Classes is part of OOP that was added in Cobol 2002.   
   >   
   > Collection classes was added in:   
   >   
   > ISO/IEC TR 24717:2009, Information technology -- Programming languages,   
   > their environments and system software interfaces -- Collection classes   
   > for programming language COBOL   
   >   
   > I have never seen it used and I do not know how they work. But if it is   
   > like collection classes in most other programming languages, then it   
   > is predefined container classes for list, map/dictionary etc..   
      
   Refs:   
      
   https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container.html   
      
   https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/collections/index.html   
      
   https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/collections/   
      
   https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html   
      
   Arne   
      
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