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- From: Bart Gerardi <gerardi_b@wmodev.enet.dec.com>
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- Subject: Re: Is COBOL Dead?!
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 14:24:53 GMT
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- >In what way is Cobol crap ? It does the job it was designed to do
- >probably better than any other language. Of course no one would
- >want to write games in it, or operating systems, but then they
- >are not business systems.
- >
- The above is exactly right. COBOL is the BEST at what it does.
- It doesn't do much, put it is perfect for Business systems
- (notice my .sig) VAX/BASIC is okay, too. You try to get stars
- to print instead of zeros in a C program....
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- >In what way is Cobol slow ? I have some programs here where the
- >Cobol version outperforms the C version. Then again, most
- >business applications don't need a lot of grunt - how much
- >processor time does it take to multiply a price by a quantity
- >and add the tax ?
- >
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- C is much faster at higher level math, this is correct. But,
- how often in end-of-month billing to raise something to
- a power? For business, COBOL is faster. It's compiler
- and interpreter are bigger, though, I believe.
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- >Whether Cobol is long-winded or not, and whether it matters,
- >depends on several factors beyond the understanding of a
- >student used to write-only languages.
- >
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- Once that student becomes a person, he'll understand...
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- Bart
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