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Fortran is the oldest commercial programming language, designed at IBM in the 1950s. And even though, for years, programmers have been predicting its demise, 64 years later it's still kicking ...

Programming languages: This old favourite tops the charts again Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer Feb. 9, 2021 at 2:42 a.m. PT C accounted for 16.34% of all searches that Tiobe tracks.

Large organizations still rely on ageing IT systems and programming languages to run their mainframes. But as traditional developers reach retirement age, new hires are reluctant to pick up old ...

We did a piece the other day about how learning the ancient programming language COBOL could make you bank.It was meant as a fun little article about the weird fact that large parts of our banking ...

It often involves breaking down the old code into smaller, more manageable pieces, known as microservices, and then translating it into modern programming languages.

Developers are starting to make up their minds about which new programming languages they like best. Several new languages have been introduced in recent years, including Google's Go, Mozilla's ...

Specifically, a half-century old programming language, COBOL (which stands for Common Business-Oriented Language), can't handle the demand.

The Python programming language, which has never been more popular, arguably thanks to the rise of data science and AI projects in the enterprise, officially turns 30 years old tomorrow.