From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 20 10:36:51 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA02093 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Dec 1996 10:36:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from chai.plexuscom.com (chai.plexuscom.com [207.87.46.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA02086 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 1996 10:36:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chai.plexuscom.com (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA23416; Fri, 20 Dec 1996 13:37:22 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199612201837.NAA23416@chai.plexuscom.com> X-Authentication-Warning: chai.plexuscom.com: localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: jgrosch@sirius.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD beats SCO at its own game In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 19 Dec 1996 23:37:36 PST." <199612200737.XAA00619@superior.truenorth.org> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 13:37:22 -0500 From: Bakul Shah Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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