It's crazy to think that any programming language is that old.

I don't see why. LISP is just a year younger and COBOL is 2 years younger. And Algol, spawned a year after FORTRAN, is no longer used as such (although there is now GCC support for Algol 68) but spawned many "Algol-like" languages, including most of the languages used today ... and even modern Fortran can be considered "Algol-like", having evolved to include its block structure.

FWIW, I started programming in 1965, in FORTRAN II.

	▲	iberator 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Pascal and ADA are the direct successor of Algol 60(forgot the year of the first simpler dialect) and 68. Algol, Pascal, Oberon, Simula, ADA, Julia (afik)

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lloda an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Modern Fortran is very different from early Fortran. If it wasn't for the name you wouldn't think they're the same language.

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tasty_freeze 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

As someone who has been programming for nearly 50 years of it, it seems less remarkable.

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