14 Apr
2020
14 Apr
'20
1:30 a.m.
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 2:16 PM Michael Kjörling <michael(a)kjorling.se>
wrote:
On 13 Apr 2020 13:59 -0400, from crossd(a)gmail.com (Dan
Cross):
Sadly (??) that number seems to come from a 2009 estimate. I'm not sure of
the veracity of the 390BLOC number, though.
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-…
.