Comment by ChrisMarshallNY

2 days ago

> I suspect many key open source systems (Linux, Wikipedia) will still be around in 100 years.

Bet FORTRAN will still be around. Maybe PHP, as well. Def C.

Fortran has multiple incompatible implementations and a standard that's supported completely by none of them, and that hasn't maintained 100% forward compatibility across revisions. It'll still be around in the sense that English will be -- there will be a thing by that name -- but it's impossible to say now exactly what it will be, or to write Fortran now that will still work identically without change for the next century. I think C'89 uniprocessor code would stand a better chance.