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COBOL

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From Tim Bray tonight comes this amazing fact:

There are five billion new lines of COBOL getting created every year, and there are (wait for it) 220 billion lines of COBOL in production. (Holy cow, now that I think about it, I bet I wrote ten or twenty thousand of them).

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2 responses to “COBOL”

  1. Jesse Thompson Avatar
    Jesse Thompson

    I wonder how that compares with lines of C code :]

  2. sunilkumar. j Avatar
    sunilkumar. j

    looking for cobol jobs

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