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

From: Donald Tees (donald_tees_at_nospam.sympatico.ca)
Date: 01/07/04 

Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 15:12:56 -0500

Chuck Stevens wrote:
> 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
>

Out of curiousity, Chuck, were they generated using OOP? I am begining
to think one of the most usefull aspects of OOP Cobol is going to be
code generators (and analysers).

Donald

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