Re:Simula the Forgotten Programming Language
by layer8 on Monday July 03, 2023 @07:00AM
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Ada isn’t that obscure, it outranks Scheme in the TIOBE index, for example.
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Re:Simula the Forgotten Programming Language
by galangalalgol on Monday July 03, 2023 @10:36AM
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If you are full-stack it probably seems obscure, and fortran seems outdated. But depending on your country, if you are safety critical embedded it is potentially the only option. It is in the top 2-3 in any case.
Re:Simula the Forgotten Programming Language
by TheRealKing on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @02:46PM
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As of today, Fortran is newest and the oldest programming language with its most recent standard in 2023 and its first draft as the first high level programming language in 1954.
ADA was also used as the basis for Oracle PL/SQL, and the later ISO SQL/PSM standard.
These are very much alive, and implemented in major modern databases.
"SQL/PSM is derived, seemingly directly, from Oracle's PL/SQL. Oracle developed PL/SQL and released it in 1991, basing the language on the US Department of Defense's Ada programming language."