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Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular?
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Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:

>> 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#.
> 
> The most recent survey of actual projects that I've seen (in CACM, IIRC) 
> still had COBOL in 1st place.

Did it cover open-source projects as well?
COBOL was popular at the time when development was centralized in big 
companies, so it was easier to count the number of lines. Today every 
kid is coding something and it's even hard to estimate how much code is 
written every day that is just unnoticed. Just having Windows as a major 
operating system (with milions of development shops shipping software 
for it) gives a hint that COBOL might not be a winner any longer.

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