XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On 10 Jan 2026 14:40:30 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:   
      
   > Le 08-01-2026, Lawrence D’Oliveiro  a écrit :   
   >>   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Is it really still the same COBOL?   
      
   I imagine it’s still backward-compatible.   
      
   My point being that the new stuff added to Fortran changes the   
   language out of all recognition (e.g. free-format source, user-defined   
   types, type parameters, CONTAINS), whereas the same is not true of   
   COBOL.   
      
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