COBOL

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).

Posted by jon at 11:54 PM



Comments:

Jesse Thompson writes:

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


sunilkumar. j writes:

looking for cobol jobs