Comment by hotelsacher
4 days ago
Happy birthday! I think this has to be the oldest programming language still in use. 70 years is quite an eternity in the sphere of computing. Before Fortran, there was (almost?) nothing but assembler and plug board connectors.
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/397792-ol...
It beats LISP by a year and COBOL by two years.
And Fortran doesn’t just predate Lisp, it’s a direct ancestor. McCarthy was talking about LISP as a FORTRAN extension for quite a while during LISP’s development. The original Fortran is effectively LISP 0.
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It's only another 30 years before we have the first one hundred years old extant programming language.
Yes, if it is still extant by then, and not extinct.
But it likely will still be extant, along with COBOL. And Lisp.
That's only a bit less than half an eternity. Programming languages may have been supplanted by vibe slop by then.