On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 17:40:19 -0500, Steve Beaver wrote:

>There are 15 trillion lines of COBOL   
> 
That's a couple thousand lines of COBOL for every human being on earth.
Sounds high.  How does it factor?  How many programmers wrote an
average of how many lines each?  Do you count lines generated by translators
that cascade through COBOL?  And obsolete lines disabled as comments but
retained for historical value?  Or archived versions no longer in use?

Cite?

>> essteam wrote:
>> > https://www.infoq.com/articles/retiring-mainframe-programmers

-- gil

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