Re: RPG/COBOL/C

[R Bruce Hoffman <bruce.hoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

   John specifically spoke to the issue of I/O performance in COBOL vs RPG.

   RPG (at least, used to) do a field by field translation on record I/O.
   COBOL and PL/I did not.

   That made (as I can attest to from those days) COBOL faster for I/O
   intensive applications.

   Barbara Morris wrote:

 GDS wrote:
  

 According to John Sears (a disciple of DR. Frank) COBOL was and may
 still be a faster processing language. It has/had something to do
 with generating fewer machine instructions to perform the same
 function as compared to RPG.

    

 It's hard to imagine how that could be true.  I can imagine a particular
 RPG compiler generating worse code than a particular COBOL compiler, but
   I can't imagine how all RPG compilers would generate worse code than
 all COBOL compilers.

  

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