Fortran and Cobol both orginated in the late 1950s and are still in widespread use in certain domains. It's extraordinarily cheap in these domains to keep using

Fortran and Cobol both orginated in the late 1950s and are still in widespread use in certain domains. It's extraordinarily cheap in these domains to keep using legacy Fortran and Cobol software. These folks are passionate about their domains, but they probably couldn't care less about so-called modern software languages, new development tools, and new hardware. Those of us who thrive on change find this very hard to accept. We need to get over it.