freek@fwi.uva.nl (Freek Wiedijk) (03/11/90)
I often hear the following (mutually contradictory) statements
(a) The majority of all programs is *still* being written in COBOL.
(b) Nowadays, C is becoming the "lingua franca" of the programming
community.
(and, from Bill Wolfe: (c) 50% of all programs are today being written
in Ada. However, I don't believe him. (The percentage is made-up; my
apologies to whoever may feel offended by this...))
How about some *numbers*, for instance the total number of
paid-programmer-hours in 1989 per language? Or, the number of
selled-copies-of-a-program per language? (Now, let's see, I'll sell
you 1,000,000 copies of "hello, world" for $1,00. That will teach them
a lesson! :-))
Has *anyone* this kind of information? Does it change rapidly?
Does anyone consider this kind of information to be important?
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From article <504@fwi.uva.nl>, by freek@fwi.uva.nl (Freek Wiedijk): > I often hear the following (mutually contradictory) statements > (a) The majority of all programs is *still* being written in COBOL. > (b) Nowadays, C is becoming the "lingua franca" of the programming > community. > (and, from Bill Wolfe: (c) 50% of all programs are today being written > in Ada. However, I don't believe him. (The percentage is made-up; my ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > apologies to whoever may feel offended by this...)) The percentage certainly *is* made up; I haven't made any statement on this topic, and it is inappropriate (and quite irresponsible) to attribute to me this or any other statement which you might arbitrarily make up. > How about some *numbers*, for instance the total number of > paid-programmer-hours in 1989 per language? According to the most recent figures I've seen (and these figures are old -- June 1988), the United States Ada industry has an activity of 1.25 billion dollars and comprises 13,000 jobs. If anyone has seen any more recent figures, I'd certainly be interested in knowing about them. Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu