And all our daily driver languages look like Algol or FORTRAN, excepting Forth and APL, both written by mad scientists,
On Tue, Sep 29, 2026 at 4:51 PM Paul Koning via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Sep 29, 2026, at 7:46 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > >> On Sep 29, 2026, at 4:28 PM, Peter Ekstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Ah yes, RPG.... I used to write and maintain programs on an AS/400 in > >> RPG-III and /400 back in my youth. Good memories. > >> > >> I know GCC has COBOL and also FORTRAN and ADA but I don't know of an RPG > >> compiler. > > > > Me neither. The closest I have come to RPG is my youngest sister, who was > > a commercial contract programmer around Y2K and made quite a good living > > updating COBOL and RPG programs. To her I owe this lovely quote: "COBOL -- > > the programming language that gives you writer's cramp". > > > > GCC has accumulated quite a bunch of languages at this point. C/C++ of > > course, and Objective C/C++, and Fortran. Also Ada, COBOL, Modula-2, D, > > Algol-68, and (on a fork) VHDL. I think that's it though I may have missed > > one or two. > > Yes, I missed two. Quoth the gcc.gnu.org <http://gcc.gnu.org/> homepage: > > "The GNU Compiler Collection includes front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, > Objective-C++, Fortran, Ada, Go, D, Modula-2, COBOL, Rust, and Algol 68..." > > GHDL is separate: https://github.com/ghdl/ghdl > > paul >
