[Info-vax] The (now lost) future of Alpha.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/2/2018 9:43 AM, Chris wrote:
> On 08/01/18 02:14, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Well - C and C++ seems to be the most widely used languages
>> for compilers (at least compilers generating native code).
> 
> Probably still the most common languages in use and for
> good reason.

My guess is that depends on how you count.

sum(instances*loc) - sure.

sum(loc) - I doubt it.

C/C++ is pretty big in platform software (OS,
databases, compilers etc.) and in desktop
software (office, browsers etc.) that are
used in thousands or millions of copies.

But C/C++ is not nearly as widely used
in business applications that are often
used in one copy or top hundreds of copies.
COBOL, PL/I, Basic, Pascal, Java, Python, PHP
etc. are all big in this.

Arne