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Yes, it is continuing. I've seen numbers of 1 - 4 Million programmers, 200-500 Billion lines of code ,etc etc, but the interesting numbers are in the 'new', as in not modified but created, COBOL along the lines of 5 - 15 Billion lines / year. Even with code generators, that is sizeable 'new' effort. -----Original Message----- From: Ken North [mailto:kennorth@s...] Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 3:41 PM To: xml-dev@l... Subject: Re: XML moves COBOL into the .NET and J2EE arenas << there is more than a sizable investment in COBOL prior to recent years. My point was not that the investment in COBOL is a recent phenomenon, but that it's continuing -- COBOL didn't die in the 80s. There are about 2 million COBOL programmers versus 3 million Java and 300,000 Perl. The reason why we still have 200 billion lines of COBOL running today is standardization and portability. Before the UCSD p-system, ANSI C, and the Java VM, COBOL was a favored solution for writing code for multiple platforms. << watching where COBOL goes is actually a proxy for listening to the customer. It's also an indicator that organizations will commit (long term) to vendor-neutral technologies based on standards. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php>
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