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From: wgh@ubbpc.UUCP (William G. Hutchison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: comp.lang.cobo
Summary: COBOL lives (unfortunately)
Message-ID: <627@ubbpc.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 89 13:03:33 GMT
References: <117400004@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <859@thor.wright.EDU>
Organization: Unisys UNIX Portation Center, Blue Bell, PA
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In article <859@thor.wright.EDU>, econrad@thor.wright.edu (Eric Conrad) writes:
> From article <117400004@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, by smk90219@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu:
> > 
> > Well, I know I'm technically nobody, but I'm curious:
> > Are you sure cobol isn't dead?  [ ... ]
> 
> Well, I've been away from the real world for about two years but it
> seems like COBOL is still the biggie [ ... ]

 Yep, COBOL is one of the main languages we see here.
(We assist 3rd party software vendors in porting their applications to our
 UNIX platforms).

 In order of popularity (from my memory, not objective figures) the languages
we see are

 COBOL, C, 4GLs, BASIC, FORTRAN, Pascal.

We also get the occasional request for FORTH, PL/I, Mumps, C++, LISP,
Modula-2, Prolog, etc.
-- 
Bill Hutchison, DP Consultant	rutgers!cbmvax!burdvax!ubbpc!wgh
Unisys UNIX Portation Center	"Unless you are very rich and very eccentric,
P.O. Box 500, M.S. B121         you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer
Blue Bell, PA 19424		in your own home", Edward Yourdon, 1975.