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Re:45 years since its creation. The C language still very po... by vram22 on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @05:04PM (#11765478)
>but not many that subsequently died come to mind. Cobol,

I've read (not heard) it said that there may be more lines of COBOL in existence (probably meaning still running) than lines of any other language. Biz, insurance, gov't, IBM, etc. ...

FORTRAN and C are probably close seconds (relatively speaking).

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Re:45 years since its creation. The C language still very po... by Gibbon1 on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @05:59PM (#11765868)
A friend of mine mentioned that they hired a COBOl guy last month. They needed someone to work on the COBOL side of things because they are doing a big rewrite. (The legacy COBOL code outlived the stuff that was supposed to eventually replace it)
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