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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

all of these are still used in modern applications. i suggest Forth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I bet there's still some FORTRAN in use at NASA/JPL.

Alternatively, I'm pretty sure key parts of Excel were written in x86 assembly. Dunno if that's still true.

[–] xzot746 5 points 2 days ago

When I was going to university in the early 90s I was taking computer programming for business administration, COBOL & FORTRAN, could not drop it quick enough. Such an old boring language (never stuck with programming, maybe they're all like that).

Bunch of my class mates did pretty well with the whole Y2K issue though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Fortran is everywhere. it got a new release less than ten years ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Numpy uses Fortran

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I doubt it. It's still used in a whole lot of medical and banking applications where there's a lot of text manipulation since it's really good at that (HL7 and other EDI stuff for instance).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

I made good money on EDI.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah. There's always at least one mission critical Prel script that no one can read.