Choosing a programming language for z/OS

Choosing a programming language depends on several things.

In developing a program to run on z/OS®, your choice of a programming language might be determined by the following considerations:

What type of application?
What are the response time requirements?
What are the budget constraints for development and ongoing support?
What are the time constraints of the project?
Do we need to write some of the subroutines in different languages because of the strengths of a particular language versus the overall language of choice?
Do we use a compiled or an interpreted language?

The sections that follow look at considerations for several languages commonly supported on the mainframe.