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big al
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Top Programming Languages - 2023

Any personal favorites on the list?

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Oh, look. FORTRAN's still on the list. Does that make me less of a dinosaur?

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Now I really feel old. Cobol, asseMbly, basic, fortran, pl11.


But there’s hope. I’m starting to use javascrript and json messages.


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Fortran, Pascal, COBOL. And whatever assembly language ran on the DEC PDP-8 and PDP-11.

Mik, I feel old too. But not unwanted....

COBOL Cowboys


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COBOL gets a bad rap and it still runs a whole lot of the world. In 2015 I was doing Epic conversions for a health system in the central US, Nebraska, North Dakota, etc.

One of the other guys was using SQL Server ETL tools. I said Microfocus COBOL was just as fast and probably more accurate, so we had a contest. I won. I got it done a day earlier with better results.

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Fortran, Pascal, COBOL. And whatever assembly language ran on the DEC PDP-8 and PDP-11.

Mik, I feel old too. But not unwanted....

COBOL Cowboys


I know the Hinshaw family, although not those two.


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COBOL gets a bad rap and it still runs a whole lot of the world.


Yup.

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Various recently published COBOL articles state the following…

COBOL supports close to 90% of Fortune 500 business systems today.
70% of all critical business logic and information are written in COBOL.
COBOL is 65% of active code used today; and runs 85% of all business transactions.
Market Research claims 800 billion lines of COBOL code are still in use today by various industries.


https://cobolcowboys.com/cobol-today/

Wouldn't surprise me a jot if VSAM files Edit Table 1 and Edit Table 2 are still being used in some legacy system at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.... Big Grin


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It wouldn't surprise me. A lot of them still run the stuff because they are not sure they have the right source code still after all these years. Many millions of dollars have been spent on trying to reverse engineer these systems into newer technologies. IIBM made a LOT of money off it in the 80's and 90's and I never heard of a successful one. I was part of those efforts for both health insurance and telephony.


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COBOL gets a bad rap and it still runs a whole lot of the world.


Yup.

quote:
Various recently published COBOL articles state the following…

COBOL supports close to 90% of Fortune 500 business systems today.
70% of all critical business logic and information are written in COBOL.
COBOL is 65% of active code used today; and runs 85% of all business transactions.
Market Research claims 800 billion lines of COBOL code are still in use today by various industries.


https://cobolcowboys.com/cobol-today/

Wouldn't surprise me a jot if VSAM files Edit Table 1 and Edit Table 2 are still being used in some legacy system at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.... Big Grin


Admiral Grace Hopper lives on. COBOL may well make her immortal. Well, for as long as our society survives...


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Nina
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I use SQL on an almost daily basis. I don't know python at all (audible gasp). My favorite language to write in was PASCAL. Never learned COBOL, functionally literate in FORTRAN but haven't used it in years.
 
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