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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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[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My money is on PHP.

[–] RedWeasel@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

TCL?

[–] elgordino@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Perl

[–] lime@feddit.nu 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week 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.

[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Numpy uses Fortran

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 5 points 1 week 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).

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I made good money on EDI.

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Like, 70% or more of the web runs on PHP. That's also not going anywhere anytime soon.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Right. At least 70%. I've heard it estimated as high as 97%.

And it's losing popularity with new development, (and with new developers) while WordPress, Drupal and WikiMedia are everywhere.

Perfect recipe to be the next Cobol.

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh I see what you're saying.

Dang, maybe I should learn PHP...

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I liked laravel. It's very rails like.