3 ms·
COBOL, Fortran and Lisp are fairly widely supported still. Getting them to mesh with Python may not be trivial, but it should be possible. I believe all of th
by retrac 6y ago
COBOL, Fortran and Lisp are fairly widely supported still. Getting them to mesh with Python may not be trivial, but it should be possible. I believe all of them have implementations which provide C-style foreign interfaces.
Aside from those, Pascal, APL, PL/I are still going. Algol 60 and Algol 68 were widely implemented and even have implementations today, but rarely actually used, then or now. Thinking outside the box, Forth, Smalltalk and ML are all charming in their way.
I would play to the strengths of the languages. COBOL? Formatted pretty text output. Fortran or APL? Number crunching on arrays. Lisp or ML? A parser.
- m_kos 6y agoThanks for your suggestions! I think I will try COBOL and either Lisp or ML as long as I can get them to play nicely with Python. For a while, I have been wanting to learn more esoteric languages than what is mainstream right now, but, alas, there never seems to be enough time.