I think, It depend upon what are you looking for , Cognos and Speedware are fast developement tool than COBOL.

But, more complexity add on to the Logic, COBOL is better than any other 4GL tool.

>>> Richard Gambrell <[log in to unmask]> 05/24/00 01:14PM >>>
Ted Ashton wrote:
> I am often amused to discover that something which is very obvious to one
> person is considered not true by another :-).  If I've read this discussion
> correctly, Cognos and Speedware are both incredibly superior to the other,
> Cognos and COBOL are likewise mutually superior and Transact beats both
> COBOL and Cognos except that it's about the same as COBOL and can't hold a
> candle to Cognos :-).
>

I have a friend who likes to say the best software is the one you know how
to use the best!

IIRC, perl was banned from some lanquage coding challenge somewhere
because it kept beating all others by a landslide.  But, my view of the
world suggests that Java is rapidly becoming the language to know best.

Richard
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