Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern
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Cobol is still widely used in the banking/financial sector, and the last update to the standard for it was (I think) 2014. I don't have specific sources on hand, but my understanding of that one is that basically there's around a billion lines of code or so powering the financial industry, banks, and the IRS, and a massive shortage of Cobol programmers because no one teaches it anymore. So there's a very good possibility that if you did know that one, you could just name your price.
It was originally designed by people entirely outside the CS/programming industry in the 60s who wanted a language for such people, then got used in all the places like banks where the software is so far from the point that the devs are those annoying people who make it possible for the actually important people to get their jobs done, and it's still there because those sorts of industries won't rewrite anything until the computers are melted heaps of slag.
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