Happy birthday! I think this has to be the oldest programming language still in use. 70 years is quite an eternity in the sphere of computing. Before Fortran, there was (almost?) nothing but assembler and plug board connectors.

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jibalt 5 hours ago | parent [-]

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/397792-ol...

It beats LISP by a year and COBOL by two years.

	▲	leoc 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And Fortran doesn’t just predate Lisp, it’s a direct ancestor. McCarthy was talking about LISP as a FORTRAN extension for quite a while during LISP’s development. The original Fortran is effectively LISP 0.