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COBOL vs JRuby: What are the differences?
Developers describe COBOL as "Imperative, procedural and, since 2002, object-oriented programming language". COBOL was one of the first programming languages to be standardised: the first COBOL standard was issued by ANSI in 1968. COBOL is primarily used in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments. On the other hand, JRuby is detailed as "A high performance, stable, fully threaded Java implementation of the Ruby programming language". JRuby is the effort to recreate the Ruby (http://www.ruby-lang.org) interpreter in Java. The Java version is tightly integrated with Java to allow both to script any Java class and to embed the interpreter into any Java application. See the docs directory for more information.
COBOL and JRuby can be categorized as "Languages" tools.
JRuby is an open source tool with 3.32K GitHub stars and 830 GitHub forks. Here's a link to JRuby's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of COBOL
- Business Oriented Language2
Pros of JRuby
- Java8
- Faster than Ruby7
- Threads3
- JVM3
- Open source2
- Supports native Ruby gems out the box2
- Garbage collection built-in2
- Built-in Testing2
- Deploy as executable jay2
- Great community1
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Cons of COBOL
- Extremely long code for simple functions2
