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  3. May 2007

Re: RPG/COBOL/C

GDS wrote:
According to John Sears (a disciple of DR. Frank) COBOL was and may
still be a faster processing language. It has/had something to do
with generating fewer machine instructions to perform the same
function as compared to RPG.


It's hard to imagine how that could be true. I can imagine a particular RPG compiler generating worse code than a particular COBOL compiler, but I can't imagine how all RPG compilers would generate worse code than all COBOL compilers.


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