I was told If it executes 1. a million times a second - write in assembler 2. a thousand times a second write it in cobol or C 3. once a second - write it in Java 4. Else /bash/rexx/
Though if it executes once a year and runs for a week- I might look at C Colin On Fri, 8 Jul 2022 at 15:52, Dave Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Timothy Sipples said: > > "Which leads to an interesting thought exercise. In 2022 if you're trying > to choose a programming language for business application programming that > stands the best chance of being durable (being realistically maintainable, > extendable, enhance-able) for the next 40+ years — a common requirement for > many high value, nontrivial business applications — what programming > language would you choose? I suggest Enterprise COBOL ought to be a > candidate. (Any other nominations?)" > > Enterprise PL/I, of course. :-) > DJ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
