[Themaintainers] Why Do People Neglect Maintenance?

[David Eddy]

Bernardo -

On Aug 07, 2019, at 6:20 AM, Bernardo Batiz-Lazo <b.batiz-lazo at bangor.ac.uk> wrote:

> have a bunch of stuff in Cobol also written in the 1970s and 1980s.

If you’re going to pick on deal ol’ COBOL, at least spell it correctly.

COBOL is an excellent language for what it does…


Factoids:

1/ - there are some
- 50 major software languages
- 1,500 minor languages
- a new language is introduced at the rate of one a month.

2/ - Here’s a URL for some 344 DBMS (database management system) engines:
- •	extensive list of 300+ DBMSs   db-engines.com/en/rankings
	https://www.db-engines.com/en/rankings <https://www.db-engines.com/en/rankings>

Click on “DB-Engines Rankings” tab to get to list of DBMSs

- do understand these rankings are based on POPULARITY, not objective usage statistics.

- Wow!!!!  dBase has moved up to #36 from #39.  dBase (http://www.dbase.com/ <http://www.dbase.com/>) was up to v12, but they’ve changed their branding now to dBase 2019.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

3/ - We have no objective measures for software.  Software  —  clearly a very productive “tool”  —  is not considered a balance sheet asset.   See: Doug Laney’s popular “Infonomics."

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