The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore
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(Or hardly anyone knows)Believe it or not, a 60-year-old programming language, COBOL, still powers major systems like banking and insurance. To be honest, it...
    • AlecSadler
      6·
      2 days ago

      Like, 70% or more of the web runs on PHP. That’s also not going anywhere anytime soon.

      • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
        5·
        1 day ago

        Right. At least 70%. I’ve heard it estimated as high as 97%.

        And it’s losing popularity with new development, (and with new developers) while WordPress, Drupal and WikiMedia are everywhere.

        Perfect recipe to be the next Cobol.

        • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
          7·
          2 days ago

          all of these are still used in modern applications. i suggest Forth.

          • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
            3·
            2 days ago

            I bet there’s still some FORTRAN in use at NASA/JPL.

            Alternatively, I’m pretty sure key parts of Excel were written in x86 assembly. Dunno if that’s still true.

            • xzot746
              5·
              2 days ago

              When I was going to university in the early 90s I was taking computer programming for business administration, COBOL & FORTRAN, could not drop it quick enough. Such an old boring language (never stuck with programming, maybe they’re all like that).

              Bunch of my class mates did pretty well with the whole Y2K issue though.

            • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
              2·
              1 day ago

              Fortran is everywhere. it got a new release less than ten years ago.

        • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
          4·
          2 days ago

          I doubt it. It’s still used in a whole lot of medical and banking applications where there’s a lot of text manipulation since it’s really good at that (HL7 and other EDI stuff for instance).