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Legacy-Systems

The Oldest Programming Languages Still in Production Use

January 19, 2026 programming-languageshistorylegacy-systemscobolfortranlisp

Somewhere right now, a FORTRAN program written in the 1970s is predicting tomorrow’s weather. A COBOL system is processing your credit card transaction. A Lisp-based AI is helping plan a …

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