Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:08:12 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
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Subject: [WSFA] Java vs. COBOL
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Story:
"An analysis of 745 applications for violations of good architectural
and coding practices found that Java applications had the most problems
and Cobol-built systems, the least. Some 365 million lines of code were
analyzed by Cast Software to assess 'technical debt,' or the cost to fix
the violations. Java was calculated at $5.42 per line of code, while
Cobol did best at $1.26. Cobol code had the least number of violations
because programmers 'have been beating on it for 30 years,' said Cast.
As far as Java goes, 'there are many people going into Java now that
really don't have strong computer science backgrounds,' said its chief
scientist, Bill Curtis."
                            -- 30 --

30 years? Um, sorry, COBOL came in in the sixties. That's closer to 50
years. And, of course, you don't need to be a programmer to write java,
just a java monkey....

         mark