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  • Subject: Re: Cobol vs RPG vs Java vs C vs MI.
  • From: "R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 17:07:46 -0500

-----Original Message-----
From: Lori Hainey <lhainey@hbs-inc.com>
To: COBOL400-L@midrange.com <COBOL400-L@midrange.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: Cobol vs RPG vs Java vs C vs MI.


>RPG cycle as the advantage??? I think the advantage of RPG over COBOL would
be
>the speed with which you can create a quick update program in RPG - much
more
>keying required for COBOL. Also, the date handling functions in RPGIV.
COBOL on
>the other hand I believe makes you understand what is occuring more "behind
the
>scenes" due to required handling of buffers and all.
>

This use to be true. If you eliminate the RPG cycle with NOMAIN and write
procedures, including the required prototype, then the number of lines of
code and statements and amount of typing you have to do, can actually be
MORE in RPG than in COBOL.

In COBOL 85, you don't need to specify every division or even every section.

I have written routines (procedures) in RPG and in COBOL where the RPG
program is longer and more convoluted than the COBOL, even though I have
more "hours" in front of RPG than COBOL.

===========================================================
R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional System Administrator
 -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional Network Administrator

"The sum of all human knowledge is a fixed constant.
    It's the population that keeps growing!"



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