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- From: d3g349@gilligan.pnl.gov (PR Berard)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Most Widely Used Language?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.223203.17804@oracle.pnl.gov>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 22:32:03 GMT
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- Organization: Sun Microsystems
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- A co-worker of mine made an interesting statement. He said that Cobol is the
- most widely used language today. I said that it was probably due to vast
- number of older systems in existance (i.e. many developers are using it for
- maintenance). His response was that he thought it was the most widely used
- language for new developement as well.
-
- I find this pretty hard to believe. Does anyone have stats on the current
- usage of languages?
-
- Thanks,
-
- Peter Berard
- Battelle, Pacific Northwest Lab.
-