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Fortran, Cobol, Algol, Pascal, Basic, Rexx, Ruby and Lisp have all experienced success relative to the size of the software industry during their peaks - perhap
by arexxbifs 6y ago
Fortran, Cobol, Algol, Pascal, Basic, Rexx, Ruby and Lisp have all experienced success relative to the size of the software industry during their peaks - perhaps most notably Visual Basic and Turbo Pascal.
- dragonwriter 6y agoFortran, COBOL, BASIC, Algol, and Lisp peaked well before C was popular (in some cases peaked before C existed), and Algol (obviously), Pascal, Python, and Ruby, are all languages in the Algol-derived syntax family, like C. Visual Basic is probably the biggest success of a non-Algol-derived general purpose language after the dominance of C as anything other than mostly-legacy. There are some others (Erlang, some Lisp-family languages [recently Clojure], some ML family languages) but languages with Algol-derived syntax are still far and away dominant. There's also lots of not-general-purpose languages without Algol syntax (SQL, for instance.)