From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: michael at kjorling.se (Michael =?utf-8?B?S2rDtnJsaW5n?=) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 18:09:53 +0000 Subject: [COFF] COBOL. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <71a36ea4-236e-4b87-b973-912491ed2d36@localhost> On 13 Apr 2020 13:59 -0400, from crossd at gmail.com (Dan Cross): > I read an estimate somewhere that there are something like 380 billion > lines of COBOL out there, and another 5 billion are written annually > (mostly by body shops in the BRIC countries?). That's a lot of code; surely > not all of it is good. Ars quotes an IBM press release claiming 220 billion LOC "being actively used today", at . -- Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael at kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”