Re: How many lines of Cobol running worldwide???

From: Chuck Stevens (charles.stevens_at_unisys.com)
Date: 01/07/04 

Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:16:26 -0800

I know of an entire class of monolithic COBOL programs approaching half a
million lines of (very dense) source code apiece. I grant that these are
*generated* programs, but they are COBOL programs that are in production
nonetheless. I suspect an estimate of hundreds of billions of lines of
COBOL code in use worldwide is too low.

    -Chuck Stevens

"JerryMouse" <nospam@bisusa.com> wrote in message
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> Francis ANDRE wrote:
> > Hi Listers
> >
> >
> > I made some research on the net to find out how many lines of cobol
> > were running in today's production systems, but I could not find out
> > a strong validated and (why not audited) figure.
> >
> > In my understanding from the various sources, it is counting in
> > billions of lines....which is quite large in term of
> > evaluation....Does anybody could give me more precise numbers,
> > specially on past, present and future estimations??
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
>
> Put me down for a couple hundred just today.
>
>