COBOL vs. COBOL Analyzer vs. JavaScript vs. ZenScript Comparison Chart

COBOL Analyzer provides developers the ability to continuously analyze their code before and after changes are made within their local environment and before committing those changes to the source control management stream. COBOL Analyzer is built on an industry-standard, relational database management system (RDBMS) for centralized storage of application information and artifacts. Intuitive and interactive visualizations ensure that stakeholders have application visibility and developers receive current code change updates. The COBOL Analyzer solution includes a pre-built query library including a set of common queries to locate points of interest within the application code. The COBOL Analyzer solution identifies all code that is affected by the planned code change event. COBOL Analyzer provides developers the ability to continuously analyze their code before and after changes are made within their local environment.

ZenScript originated from MineTweaker where a simple programming language is needed to allow users without programming knowledge to be able to execute simple commands by following the tutorials for it. Originally MineTweaker had a simple one-line-at-a-time parsed scripting system, but it quickly became clear that it wasn't flexible enough, so a simple parsed language was created. This parsed language worked quite well but was very inefficient as each value was wrapped into its own object. ZenScript allows mixed typed and typeless behavior. You don't need to define types anywhere, the compile will infer them where possible and exhibit typeless behavior when the type is effectively unknown. In nearly all the cases, the type is perfectly known and execution runs at native Java speed. Since there are types, they can be documented and enforced.