7 Apr
2020
7 Apr
'20
3:48 p.m.
On 4/7/20 3:24 PM, Neil Thompson via cctalk wrote:
Why? Because we used to run out of resources
regularly on that machine
writing the stuff in EBB, which was also compiled (I may be wrong, but I
seem to remember compiling stuff on it). And BASIC, even EBB, is generally
smaller than COBOL.
COBOL provides for better data typing than most other languages. (COMP,
COMP-1, COMP-2 or COMP-3), picture clauses, data structuring, etc.
If what you need is simple, maybe BASIC is fine. But it's not the
end-all by any means.
--Chuck