RE: COBOL compiler
> On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 10:05, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> > At 2003-08-26T14:25:32Z, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> >
> > > For a "Hello, World" program, or an OS, or a graphics toolkit,
even
> > > Admiral Hooper would not say that COBOL is the proper tool. OTOH,
for
> > > large commercial apps, COBOL is far and away the best tool for the
> > > job. . . .
> >
>
> From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 12:47 PM
> To: Debian-User
> Subject: Re: COBOL compiler
>
> The greatness of COBOL is the fact that it is a honed tool. Just
> as C is great for low-level work, COBOL is *designed* to move,
> process, sort, summarize, etc. fixed-length records around.
>
> For example, COBOL has intrinsic constructs for easily handling
> ISAM files in a variety of manners. Likewise, there is a very
> powerful intrinsic SORT verb.
>
Yes, but how does that compare with similarly powerful features in Perl?
--
David
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