[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[DaveFroble]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 01/24/2018 11:16 AM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:

>> Now, the context was *our* core applications. But yes, strictly
>> technically, one could write the applications in a number of other
>> (compiled) languages, but Cobol gives stable code with few options
>> to "shoot yourself in the foot". We would not be able to rewrite
>> all our Cobol code in Java (or Python), the performance would go down
>> the drain. We need stable response times to the factory equipment
>> including database updates.
>>
>> Now, just speculating, but I think that it is easier to read 20-30
>> year old and badly commented/documented Cobol code than 20-30 year
>> old and badly commented/documented C code. I might be wrong... :-)
>>
> 
> Well, that depends on the code.  Or more likely the programmer who
> wrote it.

Yeah, if the programmer was say, Chinese, and used Chinese names in the 
variables, real fun times ....

:-)

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