Re: Proportion of programming languages on AS400

Along these lines, is it Urban Legend that early on all of IBM's 
programmers wrote  the mid-range system programming in RPG and that is the 
reason it became so tight and well behaved?

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Pat Barber <MBOCEANSIDE@postoffice.worldnet.att.net>
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11/18/1999 05:48 PM
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Chris.Chambers@v2music.com wrote:
> 
> Does anyone have any 'official' breakdown for the % of sites developing 
in COBOL
> and % of sites in RPG. I have always heard 25% COBOL/ 75% RPG but I also 
heard
> recently 10/90 and then again I was also told that in N.America COBOL is 
the
> predominant langauge. However I also heard that IBM are to withdraw 
support for
> COBOL compilers.

Proably no "real" numbers, but the 90/10 rule sounds about right....

It would be VERY unlikely for them to drop COBOL support.... Several
MAJOR
accounts use COBOL 100% and they would scream VERY long and loud....
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