Re: Python .. replacing COBOL.



"Howard Brazee" <howard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.

Maybe.

It has always been an accurate measure of how much time will be spent
writing, though.

And the more manually written code there is, the more possibility of error,
and the more time will be spent maintaining it.

Faced with a choice between writing thousands of lines or writing a couple
of dozen, it is pretty much a no-brainer...

Pete.
--
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."


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