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From: donn@hp-dcd.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Language Popularity - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 27-Nov-83 03:26:39 EST
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#R:fortune:-182500:hp-dcd:24200002:000:497
hp-dcd!donn    Nov 25 10:24:00 1983

Re:
There are more programs written in Fortran...
There are more lines of code written in COBOL...
(Given the nature of the two languages, both could be true...)

(Quite) a few years ago I heard a statement like that only it went:

	There are more programs in RPG than any other language[sic].

	([sic] on the word "language" because its not clear that RPG
	is a language, its just used line one (sort of)).

	I sincerely hope its no longer true, if it ever was.

Donn Terry
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