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C++ and Python pretty much run everything, everywhere. Standard, open languages are hard to beat when you want to fully control your development stack and not w
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C++ and Python pretty much run everything, everywhere. Standard, open languages are hard to beat when you want to fully control your development stack and not worry about future control issues. I wish go was an ISO standard like C++, I'd be more interested if it was.
- stcredzero 14y ago> C++ and Python pretty much run everything, everywhere. I don't think so. Last I heard, there was still a lot of COBOL out there.
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- dwd 14y agoCOBOL gets all the hate but if they have a Big iron mainframe then they'll most likely be running RPG.
- pjmlp 14y agoOnly if it is AS/400 based systems.
- mindcrime 14y agoRPG was more oriented towards mini-computers than mainframes, from what I recall. It's niche was the IBM S/36, S/38, AS/400 and iSeries boxes. I'm sure you probably could get RPG for your S/360 or S/390 or whatever, but from what I've seen over the years, it was mostly COBOL, PL/I, and MVS Assembler on the mainframes.
- kyllo 14y agoYes, yes there is. Most banks, and many other businesses that have been around 30+ years, are still running on COBOL. It was popular because of its highly readable syntax and its fixed-point packed decimal math for financial calculations.