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>I am fascinated by how this 70-year-old creature has kept many similarities to today’s stacks, for example with IF and SWITCH If you like that, I recommend yo
by 0xblood 4y ago
>I am fascinated by how this 70-year-old creature has kept many similarities to today’s stacks, for example with IF and SWITCH
If you like that, I recommend you take a look at a language called FORTRAN (2 years older than COBOL and still used). And if you enjoy legacy and good design still being alive, LISP (1 year older) will blow your mind.
- p_l 4y agoRidiculous amounts of US weaponry are still dependant on JOVIAL, a slightly younger language whose claim to fame is adding what many people would now call "structs" to Algol. Getting rid of it was one of the reasons for Ada mandate, but as usual exceptions made it hard (PATRIOT is reportedly heavily JOVIAL based and a shitshow to program)
- mangecoeur 4y agoThere's a lot of jokes about 'old' languages but when you see the amount of churn with the new ones cough javascript cough then you appreciate how it's nice have something written once and for all. Plenty of FORTRAN still in the core of Numpy, doing core maths and being very good at it.