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by dodders 4340 days ago
In 2006, Gartner estimated there were still 180 billion lines of COBOL code running in production [1].

I don't believe a significant proportion will have been retired since.

Languages never die - they just keep running...

[1] http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9004821/Cobol_The_New...

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RPG has a significantly lower install base, and I would say it is mostly dead.