The upper-case of COBOL indicates that it hasn't and isn't. ![]() The lower-case of Fortran in the first link indicates that Fortran has made the cut, and is still with us. (In the same vein, we can reflect that the epochal IBM 360 and Cray operating systems were conceived by lone geniuses, Gene Amdahl and the eponymous Seymour the Tunnel Digger respectively.) ![]() Fortran and Cobol – no accident that they were the brain-children of 'single parents', creative individuals (John Backus and Grace Hopper respectively) rather than committees or project design teams.
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