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From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
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Subject: Re: is Ada dying?
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* Poul-Erik Andreasen wrote:
>Jeffrey Carter wrote:
>> Is COBOL dying? Of 27,615 projects on Sourceforge, zero use COBOL, yet
>> COBOL is the most commonly used language in the world. 
>
>Messured how? Bit moved? Installed programs? Whatever?  

The W2K task force of the German gouvernment came to the conclusion, that
80% of all important data is processed by software older than 25 years.