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From: x@mit-prep.ARPA (Dean Elsner)
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Subject: Re: Language use
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Date: Wed, 26-Feb-86 19:48:59 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 26 19:48:59 1986
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Doug@terak.UUCP was correct that you can't account programming languages
sensibly for a networked environment. A useful metric is "what % of bodies
are programming in a XXX environment, as distinct from a YYY environment".

I regret to report that names like COBOL JCL BAL RPG PL/1(which is better
than the others by my reconning) are far more common in corporate DP than
eg ForTran C Pascal Modula2 Simula Lisp.
Interestingly, almost as many corporate scriveners do it in (many mutually
incompatible varieties of) BASIC as in COBOL in my town (Perth Western
Australia) but they
usually do it on smaller boxes. These rankings were derived from fresh
chicken entrails propitiously read through dark glass under a full moon.
-- 
x@prep.ai.mit.edu Disclaimer: I am not me.