On 4/7/20 3:24 PM, Neil Thompson via cctalk wrote: > Why? Because we used to run out of resources regularly on that machine > writing the stuff in EBB, which was also compiled (I may be wrong, but I > seem to remember compiling stuff on it). And BASIC, even EBB, is generally > smaller than COBOL.
COBOL provides for better data typing than most other languages. (COMP, COMP-1, COMP-2 or COMP-3), picture clauses, data structuring, etc. If what you need is simple, maybe BASIC is fine. But it's not the end-all by any means. --Chuck
