Old languages die slowly - as we well know!
I was brought up on Algol 60, Algol 68 with Fortran 4 being as far as I got
before I moved on to Cobol and then to RM Cobol when "personal PC's " came of
age.
I don't know whether it is still true but RM Cobol (Ryan McFarland) was for a
long time touted to be THE most popular programming language out there as it
used standard Structured Cobol with additions and eventually even moved on to
encompass OOP thinking!.
Many, many mainframe systems are still written in Cobol - personally I hated it
and was relieved to move on to Assembler coding at Singer/ICL before
discovering the FOX!
Dave Crozier
Software Development Manager
Flexipol Packaging Ltd.
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-----Original Message-----
From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ted Roche
Sent: 19 February 2018 13:30
To: profox@leafe.com
Subject: Re: New Term: Zombie Language
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2018, at 11:49 AM, Ted Roche wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 5:02 AM, Laurie Alvey <trukke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I guess FORTRAN & PASCAL would qualify.
>> >
>>
>> The only differentiation I might make is whether there are
>> implementations still out in the world. Pascal and Fortran have more
>> or less complete and free compilers available .
>
And the same could be said of Fortran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran
61 years old, major player in weather modeling, climate change, nuclear
power/weapons, astronomy. Big use on supercomputers.
Prolly not what you'll write your next smartphone app in, but still something
with a place.
--
Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com
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