XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 09/01/2026 01:44, rbowman wrote:   
   > On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 20:15:24 -0500, c186282 wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 1/8/26 09:43, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
   >>> Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=  writes:   
   >>>> On Wed, 7 Jan 2026 19:21:09 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> FORTRAN and COBOL are still around, but I don't thinks anyone from   
   >>>>> the 70s would recognize them.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> COBOL is still COBOL. Fortran has evolved somewhat, post-Fortran-77.   
   >>>   
   >>> Modern COBOL is very different than COBOL-68 (or even COBOL-84).   
   >>>   
   >>> It even has pointers.   
   >>   
   >>     Then is it even still "COBOL" ? "NuBOL" instead ?   
   >   
   > That triggered a distant memory of SNOBOL.   
   Golly that was a long time ago...garterettes?   
      
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