In article <3BC23B9F.3B025363@pea.dk>, Poul-Erik Andreasen says...
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>Jeffrey Carter wrote:
>> 
>> "Ralph M�ritz" wrote:
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>> > I'm just starting out learning Ada, but it seems Ada is dying. From what I
>> > can see very few people use Ada, out of about 15 000 projects on
>> > Sourceforge only 32 are written in Ada!
>> 
>> Is COBOL dying? Of 27,615 projects on Sourceforge, zero use COBOL, yet
>> COBOL is the most commonly used language in the world. 
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>Messured how? Bit moved? Installed programs? Whatever?  

I found this in a Cobol FAQ a while back. Sadly, I've lost the link. I think the
info is around a two or three years old.

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Although developed more than 3 decades ago, COBOL is still one of the most
widely used computer languages. The investment in COBOL by government and
industry is significant.

Here are some statistics to put it in perspective:
* COBOL is used in *60-70 percent* of business applications.
* There are *80-100 billion* lines of COBOL code in active use.
* *Two billion* new lines of COBOL code are developed each year.
* *One million* programmers use COBOL.
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