From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 5 May 93 19:17:56 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!m oe.ksu.ksu.edu!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!hawk!billk@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Kinners ley) Subject: Re: Survey shows: Ada not popular for reengineering Message-ID: List-Id: In article srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes: : : Cobol 37% : 4GLs 20% : C++ 16% : C 15% : Other 11% : Ada 5% : Smalltalk 3% : Basic 2% : Fortran 2% : Other possible conclusions: --People still use Cobol more than C and C++ combined. --3GLs preferred over 4GLs by 4 to 1. --There are so many 4GLs with no clear winner that people tend to lump them all together. --More people would rather use BASIC or Fortran than have to learn Smalltalk. So what's the point? P.S. Is there an archive somewhere of all the Aharonian posts? I'm afraid that I may have missed a few of the early ones. -- --Bill Kinnersley billk@hawk.cs.ukans.edu 226 Transfer complete.