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=2.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_WORDY, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,21960280f1d61e84 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.rcn.net!news.rcn.net.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:37:05 -0600 Reply-To: "Frank J. Lhota" From: "Frank J. Lhota" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <1169531612.200010.153120@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular? Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:37:05 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.6.187.224 X-Trace: sv3-u9Lh1qWGYBv0df7Io74peTbQsoY+rIlcPSTGg0wMH8JiJh6TgK/2XducpH99WRQYIfEwu77+RPS6AJE!jgNzHb6rWxDF/deCjoCzppRcdxx7NusZ8g1Z4eIE6DaPXgqql0q6vLiopYZLI2QZKZ5M/RggmKJe!og== X-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8450 Date: 2007-01-23T17:37:05-05:00 List-Id: "Jeffrey R. Carter" wrote in message news:WYtth.318145$FQ1.108931@attbi_s71... > More programming is done in COBOL than any other language. Several decades ago, that was definitely true, but is it /still/ true today? If one measures things by job openings, then COBOL appears to be outpaced by C++, Java, and C#.