Re: Python .. replacing COBOL.

From: Howard Brazee <howard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:19:48 -0600

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:14:20 -0700 (PDT), Richard
<riplin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

2. Can you write less of it than an equivalent in COBOL? (Does it save on
code lines?)

Everything is less than COBOL. One can do in a few lines what would
take pages in COBOL, or even in C.

Always could. But code lines has always been a misleading
measurement of productivity.
.

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