Learning JAVA is not the problem. When an executabile blows how do you find the problem and fix the code.
In COBOL we do IF NOT NUMERIC or IF NUMERIC -- There is not equivalent In JAVA -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Thompson Sent: Friday, April 4, 2025 1:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: DOGE wants to modernize Social Security’s legacy tech — what could possibly go wrong? – Computerworld And here all this time I thought it was me. Between coding issues and an IDE and its way of doing things.... No wonder my learning Java is much slower than it was for SAS, COBOL, RPG, REXX (CMS), REXX(TSO), etc. On 4/4/2025 2:02 PM, Steve Beaver wrote: > JAVA is not magical - It's actually a POS > > It is slow and cumbersome. Its 12 times slower > Than COBOL and difficult to debug Regards, Steve Thompson > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
