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That's basically it, no one cares about C on the mainframe so COBOL doesn't deal with the C competition and C flaws that fuel Go and Rust. COBOL itself has adv
by protomyth 6y ago
That's basically it, no one cares about C on the mainframe so COBOL doesn't deal with the C competition and C flaws that fuel Go and Rust. COBOL itself has advanced but it doesn't have the same competition.
- pjmlp 6y agoThey don't care about C because mainframes always had better alternatives for systems programming, via PL/S, PL.8 and NEWP, as the three major surviving ones. Even BLISS and Mesa were better than C.
- protomyth 6y agoIf I remember correctly OpenVMS was programmed in something else also. It would have been interesting if one of the PC operating systems had decided to use one of those languages. So, no C, no interest in 'I need a C replacement language', enterprise software is boring, so no COBOL replacement. Plus, I know of at least one vendor who did develop something but it is kept in-house. I did expect someone to develop yet another REXX to address this need.