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Also, isn't COBOL extremely fast ? Which is not necessarily true for newer languages
Rust: am i a joke to you?
I think that's mostly because of the systems COBOL usually runs on, not so much because of the language
You're probably thinking of Fortran, which is still used for hardcore number crunching in areas like physics.