Parse Tree <parsetree at hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Bob LeChevalier" <lojbab at lojban.org> wrote in message
> news:jgv8ju4mpovmiqp7htdsb8gee0013a8sbf at 4ax.com...> > "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.
>>
Not for business programmming, Parse. COBOL is still the most commonly used,
although C is used more widely in general.
T9W
