Re: [PLUG] COBOL again

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

What's 3 orders of magnitude between friends? :)

On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 02:34:21PM -0400, Keith C. Perry wrote:
> Wow... talk about being off by an order of magnitude.
> 
> Thank you for the correction (and the link!)
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Walt Mankowski" <waltman@pobox.com>
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> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2018 9:07:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] COBOL again
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> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 12:55:55PM -0400, Keith C. Perry wrote:
> > Not so random JP...  I brought up Walt's point about 2 million **new** lines of COBOL code a year at a conference I gave a talk at last week.
> 
> Actually it's not 2 million, it's 5 *billion*!
> 
> Here's my source for that quote:
> 
> https://www.microfocus.com/about/press-room/article/2013/micro-focus-launches-cobol-code-contest-challenge/
> 
> If you look closely you'll see that their math doesn't quite add up,
> since they also claim that there 1.5 million lines written every day,
> which is about 10x too low.
> 
> But if you believe that there are 2 million COBOL programmers out
> there, then that 5 billion stat works out to just 2500 lines per
> person per year, which doesn't seem out of line.
> 
> Walt
> 
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