Re: [xml-dev] XML moves COBOL into the .NET and J2EE arenas

[Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>]

On May 14, 2004, at 1:41 PM, Ken North wrote:

> << there is more than a sizable investment in COBOL prior to recent 
> years.
>
> My point was not that the investment in COBOL is a recent phenomenon, 
> but that
> it's continuing -- COBOL didn't die in the 80s. There are about 2 
> million COBOL
> programmers versus 3 million Java and 300,000 Perl.

Where are those numbers from, Ken?  Interesting.

  -Tim (who prefers to forget the 100,000 or so lines of COBOL he wrote 
in 81-83)