[Tutor] languages

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On Monday 16 June 2003 12:26, Alan Gauld wrote:
> >.... Cobol should be dead (old coders from the 70s keeping
> > it alive to stay employed).
>
> Umm no sorry. It is still ythe language of choice on mainframes.
> When we built our new billing system for the new millenium it
> was 10,000,000 lines of Cobol and about 10,000 lines of Smalltalk
> for the GUI.
>
> Cobol is still the most widely used language for new projects
> according to a 2001 study I saw (Computing Weekly and Infoworld
> joint survey)
>

and neither of these changes my comment -- it *SHOULD* be dead but old coders 
who (should) know better keep it around (-: