[cctalk] Re: "It's dead, Jim" Was: Re: Intel 3086

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Jun 17, 2026, at 10:23 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk 
> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> On 6/16/2026 9:29 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
>>> On Jun 16, 2026, at 8:55 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
>>> wrote:
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>>> 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
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> Recently???

Yes: gcc.gnu.org says 2025-04-17.  And Algol 68 was added 2025-11-30.  Somewhat 
earlier was Modula-2: 2022-12-14.

        paul