This is part of the same “Mainframe is dead” BS.
New research on the global scale of the COBOL programming language suggests that there are upwards of 800 billion lines of COBOL code being used by organizations and institutes worldwide, some three times larger than previously estimated. A global study with 1,104 respondents from 49 countries found that more than nine in 10 organizations continue to view COBOL as a strategic priority. It also found that 83% of organizations believe their COBOL-based applications will see out another 10 or more years. Prior estimates were in the 200-220 billion lines. https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/programming-languages-how-much-cobol-code-is-out-there-the-answer-might-surprise-you/ While other languages come and go. I have coworkers who believed language xxx was going to replace COBOL. Never happened. Fill in the xxx with dozens of languages over the years. Bill J Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Friday, February 3, 2023, 1:10 PM, Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> wrote: It is a little distressing, though (at least to me), to observe how many "programmers" never ~have~ seen anything but COBOL. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* How agitated I am when I am in the garden, and how happy I am to be so agitated. Nothing works just the way I thought it would, nothing looks just the way I had imagined it, and when sometimes it does look like what I had imagined (and this, thank God, is rare) I am startled that my imagination is so ordinary. -Jamaica Kincaid, _My Garden Book_ */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of zMan Sent: Friday, February 3, 2023 10:50 And unless COBOL is the only programming language you've ever seen, it seems unlikely that you wouldn't know what a variable is. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
