Re:Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer
by Jtsummers on Thursday July 14, 2016 @04:16PM
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That it works and that "barely anyone knows it" are not contradictory.
Fortran (particularly in the context of embedded systems developed in the 70s and 80s) is another "barely known" language that's quite widely used (particularly in historical and maintenance contexts, if not in widespread current development outside certain engineering and scientific domains).
Fortran (particularly in the context of embedded systems developed in the 70s and 80s) is another "barely known" language that's quite widely used (particularly in historical and maintenance contexts, if not in widespread current development outside certain engineering and scientific domains).