On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 05:33:02AM -0700, vivek khurana wrote: > --- "S.K.Goel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > In case you just search internet regarding cobol, you find that > > core application of 90% of fortune-500 companies is running on > > cobol. > > Certainly , but they might be using cobol due to reasons such > as integration with legacy systems.
Yes, this is one of the major factors. But there are other factors as well like ease of maintenance of code, speed, robustness etc. The current COBOL is a far cry from the past. It has OOP extensions now, and cgi-bin extensions too ... it is not archaic ... only that they all cost, so out of reach of the common folk ... There are two types of software under development, the vertical and horizontal. The latter is what most people see and use. The vertical segment (used by large companies and organisations), which account for a very significant amount of mission-critical software under development, still has active development in COBOL even today. COBOL's dominance is underlined by the reports from the Gartner group (A noted Research and Analysis company). The following is quoted from http://www.csis.ul.ie/cobol/Course/COBOLIntro.htm --------------------------<quote>------------------------------ In 1997 they estimated that there were about 300 billion lines of computer code in use in the world. Of that they estimated that about 80% (240 billion lines) were in COBOL and 20% (60 billion lines) were written in all the other computer languages combined [Brown]. In 1999 they reported that over 50% of all new mission-critical applications were still being done in COBOL and their recent estimates indicate that through 2004-2005 15% of all new applications (5 billion lines) will be developed in COBOL while 80% of all deployed applications will include extensions to existing legacy (usually COBOL) programs. Gartner estimates for 2002 are that there are about two million COBOL programmers world-wide compared to about about one million Java programmers and one million C++ programmers. ------------------------</quote>------------------------------- I started with COBOL and Pascal two decades ago, and maybe a bit biased. IMHO, though visibly COBOL is virtually non-existant in the horizontal segment, in the vertical segment it would be ages before one can put a RIP stone with COBOL engraved on it ... Bish -- : ####[ GNU/Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]####################### Sub : What is a niced task ? LOST #320 The nice value represents the priority of a process. The lower the value the faster the process runs. The range of this value is from -20 to 19, the default being 0. A "niced task" is the one whose nice value is negative. ####[akj (at) cyberspace.org]################################# : ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
