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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 08/02/2018 10:10 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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.
> 

I believe he was talking about most common in use for writing
compilers, not financials.  Oh, and you left out APL and ANSI-M.  :-)

bill