From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1696ae,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid1696ae,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 10d15b,a3dc46d3c9254fe3 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d15b,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: troxler@i1.net (Tim Oxler) Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal? Date: 1996/07/22 Message-ID: <4svvjf$c3i@news1.i1.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 170061222 references: <4sf9e7$kl7@news.jump.net> <01bb74ac$b7aa7860$7b91f780@deangulo> organization: Internet 1st, Inc newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.dos.programmer,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.cobol Date: 1996-07-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: jtbell@presby.edu (Jon Bell) wrote: > Robert Dewar wrote: >>First, the business world uses many languages -- even today far more programs >>are written in COBOL than in C and C++ combined by a very large margin. >Just out of curiosity, how much *new* development takes place in COBOL, >as opposed to maintainance and extension of existing systems? This does >not imply that I'm downgrading maintainance, by the way. I've done some >of it (although not in COBOL), and I know that it can be a real challenge. >-- >Jon Bell Presbyterian College >Dept. of Physics and Computer Science Clinton, South Carolina USA Quite a bit. ALL of my work is new development (12 new CICS pgms in the past 2 months). All of it, for my current client, has been on mainframe. Just because it's "legacy" doesn't mean that it's static. Corporations are very dynamic. Some systems move to client/server (with the mainframe connected), and many are written in Cobol. Here's the source Infoworld, April 8, 1996, page 56. Sentry Market Research surveyed 700 IS mangers what language they used for client/server application development: Visual Basic 23% Cobol 21% C++ 18% C 15% 4GL 15% Other 8% Key findings: The use of languages has doubled since 1993. The fastest growing are Cobol and VB. 4GLs, Object Cobol, and C++ are the highest rated. The use of model driven development tools is growing. VB's strength is in graphical tool development, but placed in the middle of the ratings list. Tim Oxler TEO Computer Technologies Inc. troxler@i1.net http://www.i1.net/~troxler http://users.aol.com/TEOcorp