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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