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- From: wrowe0521@aol.com (WRowe0521)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: PL/I and C
- Date: 24 Feb 1996 08:55:52 -0500
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-
- -- I am in the process of evaluating the development of Mainframe
- applications
- -- using C/370 and PLI under MVS. The applications being developed
- include text
- -- conversions, database maintenance and development, and other I/O
- intensive
- --- routines. I am trying to determine the pros and cons of each
- language in
- -- regards to functionality, performance, ease of use, etc...
-
- I think all responses to this post have missed an essential point.
- Since these are mainframe applications we may reasonably assume that they
- are large, and will be around for some time, probably longer than anyone
- expects at present. The essential problem with PL/I, despite its many fine
- qualities as a language, is that the necessary support personnel are
- simply not available, unlike the vast armies of COBOL and C people. Indeed
- , all the signs are that their number is likely to diminish in future, and
- those that remain will charge the earth if they have any sense.
-
- Bill Rowe
-