COBOL and Fortran won’t die, they’ll just be certified with StarDates. //m
On Wed, 17 Jun 2026 at 11:30 am, Paul Koning via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Jun 16, 2026, at 8:55 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 16 Jun 2026, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > >> And COBOL... Don't forget COBOL.... :-) > > > > That's the best example. > > There is also FORTRAN > > Fortran > > APL > > ADA > > Pascal > > RPG > > BASIC > > Assembly language (35? years ago, UC Berkeley's revised curricula for > CS, Clancy and Harvey said, "Nobody prograns in assembly language any more, > nor ever will again") > > COBOL was recently added to the GCC compiler suite (as was Modula-2 and > Algol 68). And gfortran sees lots and lots of development; it seems that > various fields use it extensively still. Weather forecasting seems to be > one example. > > And ADA has been and remains an active part of GCC, too. Not to mention > that it's the foundation of VHDL (and the open source GHDL simulator is > written in Ada). > > As for assembly language, that certainly is still alive. A FORTH package > I use extensively on the Raspberry Pico is written mostly in Forth, but the > rest in assembler -- no C to be found anywhere at all. For that matter, > you can't program the Pico's programmable state machine engines in anything > other than assembler, for the simple reason that nothing else will serve > when you only have 32 words of program memory. > > paul > >
