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The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore (COBOL History lesson) (www.youtube.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Perl

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] Pieisawesome 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Numpy uses Fortran

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