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No, nothing like that. It is simply the first language ever used for these tasks (first language to be designed to look anything like English too). The language
by krastanov 7y ago
No, nothing like that. It is simply the first language ever used for these tasks (first language to be designed to look anything like English too). The language is so old that one of its designers is also the person that introduced the notion of "compiler".
- ajxs 7y agoThank you, that's very interesting to know. I had guessed that there wasn't much, based upon its vintage, but I'd have thought that it must be very robust at some level to have dominated a mission-critical financial niche for so long.