Curt wrote:
On 2013-10-21, [email protected] <[email protected]>
wrote:
COBOL is still used, but tend to disappear, you can like it or not. I
COBOL programs are in use globally in governmental and military agencies and
in
commercial enterprises, and are running on operating systems such as IBM's
z/OS
and z/VSE, the POSIX families (Unix/Linux etc.), and Microsoft's Windows as
well as ICL's VME operating system and Unisys' OS 2200. In 1997, the Gartner
Group reported that 80% of the world's business ran on COBOL with over 200
billion lines of code in existence and with an estimated 5 billion lines of
new
code annually
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobol#Legacy
Interesting. I really wonder what the numbers are today, and how
precepitously they dropped from 1997-2000. As I recall, the "year 2000
bug" was used as an excuse to re-write a lot of legacy code. There was
also a spike in demand for COBOL programmers just before 2000 - so at
least some of that re-writing probably involved tweaks to legacy code.
But a lot of stuff was completely replaced.
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