cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cringecollective.io/post/9716
Maybe some ALGOL 58 while we're at it too.
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the old languages still have their fans – and COBOL, Fortran, Ada, and Lisp are still holding strong in their respective niches
Lisp has always been the future >.>
And tomorrow is always just a day away.
Lisp variants like Clojure are being used for new projects (e.g. Logseq) but I'd be surprised to hear of anyone choosing COBOL for a greenfield project.
Yeah the only reason someone should learn COBOL is job security and potentially making a living moving things over. No reason to start a project in the lang. You can make flat files into ODBCs nowadays.
I suppose the ability to be left alone because everyone is afraid the COBOL person leaves and the company goes under is a good reason :)
I took a principles of programming languages course a while back and got to touch on a lot of these old languages. My professor had huge hard-on for Lisp. Don't get me wrong. The simplicity of the language is admirable. But reading and parsing that shit gave me headaches. No me gusta.
I think I was the reverse, I found it easier wrapping my mind around Scheme than C …