I liked Pascal. Depending on the dialect, it wouldn't take more money at all. In fact, I'd rather do that than Rust/Scala etc. COBOL - probably a lot, but not

I liked Pascal. Depending on the dialect, it wouldn't take more money at all. In fact, I'd rather do that than Rust/Scala etc. COBOL - probably a lot, but not due to the language - it'd be 30 years of accreted bad programming that would suck. Fortran - depends, like Pascal, on dialect. The most recent ones are quite reasonable.