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: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10d15b,a3dc46d3c9254fe3,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10d15b,public X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public From: jtbell@presby.edu (Jon Bell) Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal? Date: 1996/07/19 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 168944308 references: <4sf9e7$kl7@news.jump.net> <01bb74ac$b7aa7860$7b91f780@deangulo> organization: Presbyterian College, Clinton, South Carolina USA newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.dos.programmer,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.cobol Date: 1996-07-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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