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		kwhitefoot on Dec 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ten influential programming languages (2020) > my bet would be that COBOL counts. Didn't COBOL recently (in COBOL terms) get object oriented features? See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cobol-zos/6.2?topic=programs-wri...

speed_spread on Dec 19, 2022 [–]

Always 30 years late on trends. I'm waiting for functional COBOL with linear types.

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