[COFF] COBOL.

[Dan Cross]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 2:16 PM Michael Kjörling <michael at kjorling.se>
wrote:

> On 13 Apr 2020 13:59 -0400, from crossd at gmail.com (Dan Cross):
> > I read an estimate somewhere that there are something like 380 billion
> > lines of COBOL out there, and another 5 billion are written annually
> > (mostly by body shops in the BRIC countries?). That's a lot of code;
> surely
> > not all of it is good.
>
> Ars quotes an IBM press release claiming 220 billion LOC "being
> actively used today", at <
> https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/ibm-scrambles-to-find-or-train-more-cobol-programmers-to-help-states/
> >.
>

Sadly (??) that number seems to come from a 2009 estimate. I'm not sure of
the veracity of the 390BLOC number, though.
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