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While this might make the actual process of typing in the code easier, it doesn't make the language any better. I still can't imagine choosing to use COBOL over
by larrywright 16y ago
While this might make the actual process of typing in the code easier, it doesn't make the language any better. I still can't imagine choosing to use COBOL over using Ruby or even C#.
- nerds-central 16y agoThe point is that there is a lot of COBOL already out there, so someone has to maintained it and add to it. What is more, C# is not a perfect language for business its self, neither is Ruby. With good tooling the difference are small. Actually, in my case I would never recommend using Ruby for a commercial project - but that is another discussion for another time :)
- larrywright 16y agoThere's been a lot of ruby code written on commercial projects, I think the developers (and customers) would disagree with that. I also think you're way off on the amount of difference between C# and COBOL. The fact that COBOL requires good tooling to be usable is telling in and of itself.
- CountHackulus 16y agoBelieve it or not, just last night I was wishing I could use COBOL instead of C for a project. For simple read/process/write of fixed size binary records, COBOL is a dream to work with. You'd be surprised, there's still some awesome optimizing compilers being written for COBOL.
- nerds-central 16y agoThat is the sort of thing COBOL does well :)