blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON. (blowfish@carina.unm.edu)) (07/14/90)
Just a couple of questions on Cobol- especially in reference to the PC and variations/clones. 1) How many (if any) compilers/interpeters are currently available? 2) Are any of them any good? 3) Are there any major (or minor) differences between a mainframe Cobol and the PC versions? Please respond by mail: blowfish@carina.unm.edu(!ariel.unm.edu) Thank you in advance. rON. (blowfish@carina.unm.edu!ariel.unm.edu) "I've got compassion running out of my nose, pal. I'm the Sultan of Sentiment."
staylor@snidely.UUCP (Scott Taylor) (07/15/90)
in article <1990Jul14.050542.628@ariel.unm.edu>, blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON. (blowfish@carina.unm.edu)) says: > Just a couple of questions on Cobol- especially in reference to the PC and > variations/clones. > > 1) How many (if any) compilers/interpeters are currently available? I know of Acucobol, Ryan-Macfarland, BPI (Still around?), Microsoft and Realia. > > 2) Are any of them any good? Acucobol is a "run-time" environment. Interpret that as the slowest. Although Acucobol is ansi-85 oriented, I would not suggest it for any file, numeric, or even screen oriented programming. They really ought to abandon the Run-time idea and go for some speed... Ryan-Macfarland is also run-time, but I have benchmark results showing it faster. BPI was a little better than those (compiled). Microsoft is compiled. When I was using it, It was broken (Buggy), so I have no valid current opinion. Realia is the one I use. Compiles my 18000+ line order-processing system at about 13,000 lines per minute, it executes blindingly fast, and it's SORT is faster than OPTSORT v4. It also packs a phenominal file indexing system which is the main reason I am still using COBOL. > > 3) Are there any major (or minor) differences between a mainframe Cobol and > the PC versions? Realia is almost literally IBM VS-COBOL on a PC. The fact that I run many of the file processing programs written in REALIA COBOL on 309X machines running VS-COBOL should serve as a good example. The others do not meet this test. > Please respond by mail: blowfish@carina.unm.edu(!ariel.unm.edu) I thought others should hear this too... -- Scott G. Taylor Pmd Resources (818) 991-0068 {wlbr,mahendo}!snidely!staylor 31230 Cedar Valley Dr. Or even snidely!staylor@mahendo.jpl.nasa.gov Westlake Village, CA 91362 "Es dziedasu, par tevi, tevu zeme. Vienoti Latvijai!"