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- From: martym@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (martin.mcgowan)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: >>>>>>> Most Widely Used Language?
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- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.032433.11679@cbnewsk.cb.att.com>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 03:24:33 GMT
- References: <ssimmons.714403117@convex.convex.com> <seZHlOz0BwwZ9f8wIy@transarc.com> <1992Aug22.191141.17411@nntp.uoregon.edu>
- Organization: AT&T
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- In 1986, while a Product Manager (AT&T's C Programmer Productivity Tools),
- I had the occasion to work with the Eastern Manager for a popular COBOL
- vendor. He claimed a figure of 3 Billion lines of COBOL in the world.
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- Judging from the comments here, COBOL still lives. One might infer
- a billion lines of COBOL per decade. We are now well into the 4th billion!
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- -- Marty McGowan
- AT&T BL, Whippany NJ
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