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- From: VArase@varase.it.luc.edu (Verne Arase)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Is COBOL Dead?!
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 22:57:37 -0600
- Organization: LUMC
- Message-ID: <AD78E0E19668BE3C@mcdialb10.it.luc.edu>
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- In article <4it5ob$24p@firebrick.mindspring.com>,
- vtipres@atl.mindspring.com (shon frazier) wrote:
-
- >I wouldn't even use COBOL for business programming. The time it takes
- >to code most things takes forever.
-
- I would suspect that speed in coding for _any_ language has more to do with
- experience and typing speed.
-
- >So much more can be created in much less time by many currently
- >available environments. I am interested in the COBOL speed vs C
- >speed debate.
-
- The relative speeds of COBOL and C probably have more to do with the coder
- and compiler than with the language itself.
-
- C has the advantage of easy pointer-based addressing and easy translation
- into machine code for VAXen, Intel, and Motorola CISC architectures; COBOL
- has the advantage of simplicity and a greater level of abstraction. (It
- doesn't take as clever a compiler to tell what programmer intent was; this
- probably makes an optimizing compiler easier to write.)
-
- ---
- The above are my own opinions, and not those of my employer.
-