Scott: You must also agree its not always efficient coding or usage of memory. In my experience, it was ease of usage. For example, you mention HLASM and people 'give you that look'. It also depends on the person writing the code itself.
Just my $.02 worth Scott On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 8:33 AM Scott Chapman < scott.chap...@epstrategies.com> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 16:10:02 -0400, Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> > wrote: > > >Sigh: > > > > > https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a32095395/cobol-programming-language-covid-19/ > > > > At the end it really goes off the rails when it starts making performance > assumptions that Java would be impossibly slow, and maybe Python would be > better. > > Python is on my list of "one of these days I should probably learn that", > but from my limited Python knowledge that seemed really unlikely that > Python would be faster than Java. Some simple googling around confirms that > it's really hard to find any references to Python being faster than Java > for anything but trivial scripts. Although there are apparently some ways > to compile Python, Python's loose typing is often cited as a potential > performance limitation as well. > > And in real life Java is definitely not always slower than COBOL. > Just-in-time compilation can result in more performant object code than > ahead-of-time compilation, especially when "ahead-of-time" means "a decade > ago for a target machine that was not real new even then". And Java runs on > the zIIPs, which can be a significant advantage in some environments. > > But I would be surprised to find a case where COBOL isn't the most memory > efficient. > > Scott Chapman > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- *IDMWORKS * Scott Ford z/OS Dev. “By elevating a friend or Collegue you elevate yourself, by demeaning a friend or collegue you demean yourself” www.idmworks.com scott.f...@idmworks.com Blog: www.idmworks.com/blog *The information contained in this email message and any attachment may be privileged, confidential, proprietary or otherwise protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of this message and any attachment is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and permanently delete it from your computer and destroy any printout thereof.* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
