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- From: ssimmons@convex.com (Steve Simmons)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: >>>>>>> Most Widely Used Language?
- Message-ID: <ssimmons.714403117@convex.convex.com>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 13:18:37 GMT
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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?
-
- COBOL and FORTRAN are still the most dominant languages today in terms
- of code that has been written (and running). However, I think that
- C is now the dominant language for new code underdevelopment. Both
- COBOL and FORTRAN are the languages on the old mainframes and mini-computers.
- C is really dominant in both the Unix and PC worlds. Whatever?!?!?
-
- Most application software is not very complex in terms of system programming.
- Therefore, both FORTRAN and COBOL fit this paradigm nicely. However, both
- FORTRAN and COBOL programmers should be nervous because many of these
- jobs are being exported to countries like India and South Korea.
-
- Only a few years ago, there were these Data Processing Institutes that would
- churn out COBOL programmers. These programmers did not necessarily have
- either college, engineering, or mathematic backgrounds. As a summer job
- 8 years ago, I worked for a company that did product development on mainframes.
- Most of my fellow employees were trained at these places. They were
- good at what they did.
-
- Thank you.
-
- Steve Simmons
-