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> except all those written before it?

Out of curiosity, what do you use? My history is not too great, but I can't think of many languages that came before C that are still in use today. I actually use fortran at work (along with C), and I'll give a pass to Lisp (it seems like c predates the dialects that are still in common use, ie common lisp and scheme), but it seems like most others (Pascal, COBOL, Basic) are more curiosities in the modern world. Please correct me if I'm wrong.



Actually Cobol is pretty much everywhere in the substrate, but not in visible places... banks, insurance companies, and the like have tons of cobol code in use.


And if we count VBA, VB6 and VB.net as spiritual successors to BASIC there's an absolutely ungodly amount of new BASIC code in use and being written every day anywhere people use Excel. It's ugly, but it's a large part of how business is done.




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