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Subject:Re: four most-wanted prog. languages From:Paige Vinall <vinall -at- VNET -dot- IBM -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 22 Aug 1995 12:56:51 PDT
In TECHWR-L Karen Davis PSP team 03 505 <karene -at- ASIMOV -dot- SC -dot- TI -dot- COM> writes:
> COBOL is only used in a very
>few, very antique banks and insurance companies.
I beg to differ. It has been estimated that there are over 65 billion
lines of COBOL code in use today. I admit that it is not yet in wide
use on workstations or PCs, but I think that will change over time
as the mainframe community moves forward.
