I still like to count the number of lines of code running production at viable companies all around the world, including uptime and reliability. I bet Cobol wins. I liken us to Cobol (most of us anyway), older, mostly very stable and likely to be around for a very long time yet. Just my $.02 about dying languages.
Happy Monday from the snowbound south. No bread or milk for the week. On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 12:34:35 +0100, R.S. <[email protected]> wrote: >Jan MOEYERSONS pisze: >> On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 23:18:50 +1100, Shane Ginnane <ibm- >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I find myself inexorably drifting away from REXX. Seems to be the dying >>> "language". >> >> Are you saying COBOL has died, then? >> >> If only I got a penny for every line of COBOL written today in the world, I >> could retire this very minute and step up my lifestyle at the same time... > >Compare it to other languages, especially in NEW projects. > >BTW: I'm not saying anything about COBOL, just commenting "the measurement". > > >-- >Radoslaw Skorupka >Lodz, Poland > > >-- >BRE Bank SA >ul. Senatorska 18 >00-950 Warszawa >www.brebank.pl > >Sd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy >XII Wydzia Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru Sdowego, >nr rejestru przedsibiorców KRS 0000025237 >NIP: 526-021-50-88 >Wedug stanu na dzie 16.07.2010 r. kapita zakadowy BRE Banku SA (w caoci wpacony) wynosi 168.248.328 zotych. > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
