Hello👋 everyone
I was halfway through a thought when something hit me and stopped me dead in my tracks: the software running your ATM machine was coded even before your parents were born. The code forecasting the weather of tomorrow is older than the internet. The backend delivering your WhatsApp messages is built using a programming language that most developers have not even heard of.
We often discuss what the latest tech things are. Languages like #Python, #Rust, and #TypeScript, the shiny tools that everyone is learning. However, very few talk about the real factors that are holding all these up.
Hence, I followed a trail down the hole. I looked into 7 programming languages that the world had declared as old and no longer of use, and yet I discovered them quietly running global banking, space missions, aircraft avionics, and real-time communication of billions of people.
Here is the first piece of my blog:
👉 "From ATMs to WhatsApp: The Old Programming Languages Behind Your Everyday Tech"
It delves into COBOL, FORTRAN, Assembly, LISP, Erlang, Ada, and Prolog, complete with actual statistics, real companies, and the honest reasons why nobody has yet replaced them.
Let me know what you think, have you ever worked with any of these languages? Leave a message below and share your experience.
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