| ▲ | elzbardico 2 hours ago | |||||||
Don't know about COBOL, but FORTRAN and Ada definitely would survive an Extinction Level Event on earth. Plenty of space based stuff running Ada and maybe some FORTRAN. | ||||||||
| ▲ | rramadass an hour ago | parent [-] | |||||||
The key to understanding their longevity lies in the fact that they were the earliest high-level languages invented at a time when all software was built for serious long-lived stuff viz. Banking, Insurance, Finance, Simulations, Numerical Analysis, Embedded etc. Computing was strictly Science/Mathematics/Business and so a lot of very smart domain experts and programmers built systems to last from the ground up. | ||||||||
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