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From: Robert*@ <Robert_member@newsguy.com>
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Subject: Re: is Ada dying?
Date: 9 Oct 2001 07:50:06 -0700
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In article <05Dw7.21484$ev2.29726@www.newsranger.com>, Ted says...
>
 
>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.
>---
 
Ada makes a perfect replacment for COBOL.

If we can target COBOL programmers (instead of the C/C++/Java ones), we
will win in the end.

I find it very strange that Ada is not used much in business applications, and
more strange it is not used much in financial applications. people will actually
use C to divid numbers and compute decimals and not Ada. very strange world 
we live in.