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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 1696ae,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid1696ae,public X-Google-Thread: 10d15b,a3dc46d3c9254fe3 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d15b,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: andrewg@microlise.co.uk (Andrew Gierth) Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal? Date: 1996/07/19 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 169663661 x-nntp-posting-host: microl.demon.co.uk references: followup-to: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.cobol organization: Microlise Engineering Ltd. 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: [This thread should never have been injected into comp.unix.programmer. Would all respondents *please* take that into account. Followups set.] jtbell@presby.edu wrote: > 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.