>>>.I was told 20 years ago in college that Cobol was dead. It's still here.
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>>Only because there are billions of lines of code.... New projects are not started with Cobol
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>True. It was once estimated there are billions of lines of xBase code too.

Ah, yes but are those billions of lines of xBase running at multinationals and banks also? No. Allso those lines of code are running on pc systems wich have a much shorter lifespan than some mini or mainframe computer. I remember a big insurance company where i worked in the beginning of this year. The mainframe application (cobol) was still runnning whilst it was build in the early '70's. I don't see any xBase programs still running from the original Dbase era.

Also the same company had about 250 clipper applications running at the beginning of the year. Now only 20 apps still run on clipper, the rest is either history or ported to Delphi. So much for VFP...

KR,