"Bob LeChevalier" <lojbab at lojban.org> wrote in message
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> "John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> wrote:
> >But that didn't even make Cobol the industry standard, because
> >*COMMERCIALLY* developed languages like Fortran and Algol became the
> >standard.
>> COBOL was and remains the industry standard in business programming, which
is
> the largest percentage of software in the country. Algol never was much
used
> in the US.
Are you implying that COBOL is the most widely used language in the world?
That is not true. C holds that position. Actually, there are quite a few
languages that are more widely used than COBOL.
