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"No other language is capable of representing business data as accurately as COBOL," What does that mean? How is COBOL better at representing business data th
by adorton 15y ago
"No other language is capable of representing business data as accurately as COBOL,"
What does that mean? How is COBOL better at representing business data than another enterprise platform - say Java, or .NET?
- bkudria 15y agoCongratulations, sir, you win a prize! You have discovered a sentence of meaningless bullshit in a mainstream technical publication that purports to understand technology. This is an incredibly rare event and you deserve recognition!
- wickedchicken 15y agoAt least it's not the awesomeness on cobol.com which boils down to "If you don't use COBOL you will have to REWRITE software which is a RISKY and COSTLY endeavor. COBOL makes everyone's life easier because you won't get FIRED for suggesting alternatives."
- rbonvall 15y agoBut they are awesome! They want to give me a coffee maker for praising Cobol! http://www.cobol.com/competition http://www.cobol.com/competition
- Sandman 15y agoWhy the snarky comment?
- madmoose 15y agoBy "business data" they probably mean "fixed format record datasets" which is COBOL's native format. Processing fixed format records (preferably one at a time) is the only thing COBOL is somewhat skilled at, though.
- pjscott 15y agoIt might also be referring to COBOL's built-in support for binary-coded decimal arithmetic. Which would still be a pretty silly statement, since other languages can also do BCD with the appropriate library.