Re: Cobol vs RPG vs Java vs C vs MI.

Something else to consider is the fact that very few if any of us write code
from scratch.  You usually start with a skeleton or model program, change the
file section if needed, and code the procedure division.

-- 
Terry Grider
tgrider@arkansas.net

"R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." wrote:
> 
> -----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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