14 Apr
2020
14 Apr
'20
12:09 a.m.
On 13 Apr 2020 13:59 -0400, from crossd(a)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
<https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/ibm-scrambles-to-find-or-train-more-cobol-programmers-to-help-states/>.
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