Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 13:37:22 -0500 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@plexuscom.com> To: jgrosch@sirius.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD beats SCO at its own game Message-ID: <199612201837.NAA23416@chai.plexuscom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Dec 1996 23:37:36 PST." <199612200737.XAA00619@superior.truenorth.org>
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> The common wisdom has approximately 75% to 85% of all existing code is > written in COBOL. Most of it is 15 to 20 years old and in bad need of a > rewrite. This seems wrong. Or atleast seems to need some qualification. If `most of' 75% of 85% of all existing code is 15 to 20 years old, then at most 62.5% of all exisiting code has been written in the last 15 to 20 years. Many many more people started writing code since DOS/Windows/Mac started becoming generally available and even the original IBM PC was introduced in 1980. 62.5% seems much too low. Heck, if you just add up the number of lines of code in all the microsoft products..... :-) BTW, I recall hearing similiar statistics 15+ years back! This seems more like an urban legend. Does anyone have a reference to any specific survey regarding number of lines of code written in different languages and their growth rates? Just curious. -- bakul
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