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		dlachausse 28 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mostly dead influential programming languages (202... BASIC is the scripting language used by Microsoft Office. Saying that it powers millions of businesses is probably not an exaggeration. Pascal, particularly the Delphi/Object Pascal flavor, is also still in widespread use today.

Rochus 28 days ago [–]

Also Smalltalk is still in wide use; ML is also used; there are even many PL/I applications in use today and IBM continues to give support.

fuzztester 28 days ago | [–]

I don't know, I heard somewhere that even the C language is in wide use, still ... ;)

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