COBOL | Java |
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declare age as binary-long = 10 declare greeting as string *>greeting = age < 20 ? has no directly equivalent syntax in COBOL if age < 20 move "What's up?" to greeting else move "Hello" to greeting end-if declare x as binary-long = 200 declare y as binary-long = 3 if x not = 100 and y < 5 multiply 5 by x multiply 2 by y end-if *> evaluate is preferred in COBOL rather than if/else if/else evaluate x when > 5 multiply y by x when 5 add y to x when < 10 subtract y from x when other divide y into x end-evaluate declare color as string = "blue" declare r b g other-color as binary-long evaluate color *> can be any type when "pink" when "red" add 1 to r when "blue" add 1 to b when "green" add 1 to g when other add 1 to other-color end-evaluate |
public class choices { public static void main(String[] args) { int age = 10; String greeting = age < 20 ? "What's up?" : "Hello"; if (age < 20) { greeting = "What's up?"; } else { greeting = "Hello"; } int x = 200; int y = 3; if (x != 100 && y < 5) { x = 5 * x; y = 2 * y; } if (x > 5) { x = x * y; } else if (x == 5) { x = x + y; } else if (x < 10) { x = x - y; } else { x = x / y; } String color = "blue"; int r = 0, b = 0, g = 0, other_color = 0; if (color.equals("pink") || color.equals("red")) { r++; } else if (color.equals("blue")) { b++; } else if (color.equals("green")) { other_color++; } } } |
Portions of these examples were produced by Dr. Frank McCown, Harding University Computer Science Dept, and are licensed under a Creative Commons License.