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Lazarus ( Free Pascal ) seems to be thriving actually. APL is probably as big as it ever was. COBOL will shrink over time but it may still outlast me. I have no

Lazarus ( Free Pascal ) seems to be thriving actually. APL is probably as big as it ever was. COBOL will shrink over time but it may still outlast me. I have no insight into SmallTalk but my University curriculum included it and it would not surprise me at all to see it used academically today. I was also taught Scheme and Fortran and those are still going strong. If I wanted to use any of these, I know I can find both free and commercial dev environments easily that run on platforms I still use. Is ALGOL still in use anywhere though? Is there a compiler available that runs on anything modern? I genuinely curious.

kriro 4y ago
My exposure to SmallTalk has basically been from professors who always referenced it as great and a pillar of OOP back in the day at university. Of course I was a crontrarian student who was drinking the functional cool aid at the time so my response was usually "lol OOP" or something similarly clever. I investigated it a bit and my main takeaway was "ellegant but slow". Being the mature student I was I then proceeded to read up on OOP in detail for the following semester and changed from "lol OOP" to "yeah, yeah but it's so much better in Eiffel". I'm very thankful that I've since turned from a flamewar-triggerhappy person into a very pragmatic person that uses whatever language gets the job done while trying to find the value and neatness in each of them :)
jamesfinlayson 4y ago
Looks like an Algol special character was added to Unicode in 2009 so... maybe? Seems like Fortran and COBOL pop here as dead languages still in use but I haven't seen anyone mention Algol (or B, BCPL or anything similar either).