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On 9/27/24 4:38 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2024-09-27, geodandw <geodandw@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 9/27/24 13:43, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>
>>> On 2024-09-27, geodandw <geodandw@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Cobol was also very portable.
>>>
>>> As long as your destination compiler supports COMP-3.  :-)
>>
>> Or your source computer didn't have COMP-3, or if you didn't use it.
> 
> I was once called in to optimize a CPU-bound COBOL program.
> The genius who wrote it declared all subscripts as COMP-3.
> Changing them to COMP-4 knocked 30% off the execution time.

   Did COBOL even HAVE real "types" ???

   It was not really a "sophisticated" language.
   It was MEANT mostly for biz/commercial apps,
   esp financial and scheduling. It was GOOD at
   that - except for being TOO ugly/confusing in
   the chase to be "simple/self-documenting".

   I don't hate COBOL - it HAD/HAS its place.
   However the real-world implementation could
   never live-up to "The Vision".

   COBOL could/can be "improved" - made more
   efficient. But NOBODY is gonna DO that
   these days. As such COBOL kinda becomes
   like 'Latin' - an unchanging 'dead' lang.
   This MAY be a good thing.