On 13 Apr 2020 13:59 -0400, from crossd@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/>.