Comment by retrac

The largest nuclear power plant in North America, Darlington Nuclear Generating Station in Ontario, a bit east of Toronto, uses robots for handling the fuel rods. The plant was designed in the late 70s and the control software is apparently written in PDP-11 assembler. And they will keep using it for the remaining lifespan of the plant. So probably long after I retire and I'm not old. Now that's an idea for any young coders looking for a language that'll still be in use when they retire; they were hiring maintenance engineers to help keep it running a few years back. Maybe a bit of a dead end skills wise but some of it'll transfer to the embedded VAXen that still run half the assembly lines in the same region. (That career advice is sarcastic - probably.)