Re: Proportion of programming languages on AS400 -- MIDRANGE-L

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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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