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In <dbell-0804961720020001@wholder2.cts.com> dbell@shvn.com (Doug Bell) writes:
>In article <4kbfnf$1bu@news1.is.net>, mvantassel@teambca.com (Mark
>VanTassel) wrote:
>> linden@positive.eng.sun.com (Peter van der Linden) wrote:
>> >My personal belief is that C++ has peaked and will now go into a steady
>> >decline.   But lets see some metrics proposed for measuring this.
>Who says C++ is now king of the hill?  I don't have the numbers to back
>this up, but it's my understanding that despite the steady increase in C++
>use, C is still used more widely.  A more correct statement would probably
>be: C++ is now king of the large-and-complex-OS-API hill.
   There's lots of ways to measure kingness.  If you just count lines
of legacy code, then certainly COBOL has got to be it. (In fact,
they're just about to release Object-Oriented COBOL. [One shudders to
think of the syntax.])
   Perhaps a better measure is 'lines of code being developed today'.
I agree with Peter that C is probably it, at least for a while.

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