From: "Reggie Bautista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I don't particularly have a problem with COBOL; in fact, I like it a good sight better than some *other* languages to which I've been exposed, like FORTRAN (I know, I know, they do completely different things). Reggie Bautista
PL/I was IBM's attempt to create a language which could do both business applications (like COBOL) and scientific/mathematical applications (like FORTRAN). Unfortunately, by the time it came out, no one wanted to re-write all the programs in COBOL and FORTRAN that they had already spent many years writing and maintaining.
If I have to choose between coding COBOL and coding RPG, I would much rather go for COBOL. I feel I can exercise a lot more control with a computer programming language that uses instructions that resemble natural language.
RPG is not really a programming language as such. As its name--Report Program Generator--says, it's designed to do one thing: create programs inside the computer to generate reports of the type businesses seem to live on. COBOL (COmmon Business Oriented Language) was designed to be a full programming language for business applications (though for non-business applications it may not be all that great).
-- Ronn! :)
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