First computer language

Rajiv Vyas rajiv1 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 22 20:39:52 UTC 2005


> Uninteresting fact: I read that the amount of money spent on COBOL
> each year is greater than the entire GDP of Switzerland. However, I'm
> not sure what exactly this statistic says about COBOL...
> 


That would be hard. Switzerland's total GDP is more than $200 billion.
I doubt that companies worldwide have $200 billion to spend on Cobol
development.


Rajiv







> Apologies for O/T-ness.
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> > Even though I don't actually program in python, I'd have to agree with you.
> > If _is_ a good first language.
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