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The answer has been "no" for a long time. Once people got excited about Algol they started basing languages on the idea of inline math/expressions. FORTRAN surv
by EamonnMR 8y ago
The answer has been "no" for a long time. Once people got excited about Algol they started basing languages on the idea of inline math/expressions. FORTRAN survived by changing; COBOL was mostly abandoned.
- pjmlp 8y agoOn the contrary, modern COBOL supports OOP and there are even compilers for .NET and Java. Naturally no one is writing greenfields applications, rather incrementally refactoring existing codebases.