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- From: lms@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Max Stern 310-524-6152)
- Subject: Re: Most Widely Used Language?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.211811.5574@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com>
- Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
- Disclaimer: This posting does not neccessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.
- References: <1992Aug20.223203.17804@oracle.pnl.gov>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 21:18:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug20.223203.17804@oracle.pnl.gov> d3g349@gilligan.pnl.gov writes:
- >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.
-
-
- I hope that the answer to this question will include a definition of
- its terms. I believe it is true that COMMERCIAL applications being
- developed today, COBOL is still the most widely used. I also believe
- that FORTRAN is the most widely used language of all time and is still
- in wide (but diminishing) use today.
-
- I think if "widely used" is defined in terms of number of users, then
- FORTRAN wins. If in terms of lines of code, COBOL wins (of course!!!
- (:>)
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