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This is true. Back in the day, COBOL was marketed to businiess people as an easy to learn code to just get stuff done. Serious programming was done with FORTR

This is true. Back in the day, COBOL was marketed to businiess people as an easy to learn code to just get stuff done. Serious programming was done with FORTRAN.

bdavis__ 7y ago
still true today. (not really, but there is a lot of f77 out there...)
- eyegor 7y ago
  I don't know anyone who uses f77 anymore, but f90 and up is still popular in scientific research.
Koshkin 7y ago
Actually, FORTRAN was marketed to scientists, not for "serious programming" which was still done in assembler.
- WorldMaker 6y ago
  Why sometimes still today someone's Jupyter notebook of data science Python is calling into FORTRAN libraries under the hood.