From the article title I thought this article would be why FORTRAN, LISP, and COBOL still survive after over 60 years of use. First, these computer languages st

From the article title I thought this article would be why FORTRAN, LISP, and COBOL still survive after over 60 years of use. First, these computer languages started with a lot of good ideas and evolved to incorporate ideas from subsequent decades like structured programming and objects. Second, there are massive institutional code bases in these early languages that are too difficult to rewrite. These languages might even make it into the 22nd century.