-=> Quoting Neil Heller to Frank Swarbrick
 NH> There are BY FAR more COBOL programs in use today than there are
 NH> programs in all other languages combined.  There are so many more
 NH> people earning a living by writing COBOL programs today than any other
 NH> group of languages that your position is safe ... for now.
While I would agree with the number of programs written in the language, I'm
not sure about the number of actual programmers... somehow I think C++ is
right behind C today [phew, marginally on topic!].
 FS> We use a database system called DL/I (Data Language I).
 NH> That went out of favor in the mid '70s; IBM replaced it with DB2.  The
 NH> same exact affect can be had by combining a modern, relational
 NH> database system (DB2/2, Access, Watcom SQL, etc.) on a microcomputer
 NH> with just about any serious programming language.
Note: DB2/2 is merely the port of DB2 to OS/2.  DB2 is the "universal"
(platform non-specific) name.  Admittedly, the others you mentioned are only
available on specific platforms....
What Frank really wants is: DB2, Oracle, Informix, or... I can't recall our
other competitors.  :-)
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