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>but not many that subsequently died come to mind. Cobol, I've read (not heard) it said that there may be more lines of COBOL in existence (probably meaning st

by vram22 10y ago

>but not many that subsequently died come to mind. Cobol, I've read (not heard) it said that there may be more lines of COBOL in existence (probably meaning still running) than lines of any other language. Biz, insurance, gov't, IBM, etc. ... FORTRAN and C are probably close seconds (relatively speaking).

Gibbon1 10y ago
A friend of mine mentioned that they hired a COBOl guy last month. They needed someone to work on the COBOL side of things because they are doing a big rewrite. (The legacy COBOL code outlived the stuff that was supposed to eventually replace it)