>>>>>Yeah.....that would explain COBOL, FORTRAN, and Assembler
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>>>>I bet you can't find a handful of each other than cobol and that's because of the huge business investment in it. Nobody teaches or uses assembler to day becuse of 4gl languages unless you a bit tweaking at the core..
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>>>ummmm....last time I checked, and it has been awhile, but the military still runs tons of FORTRAN, so do a lot of geological companies.
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>>And power companies and oil refineries and other process control industries.
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>Interesting. I would have guessed they used low level languages like C or even assembler.

Yeah, there's some C, and quite a bit of assembler, however FORTRAN rules in a lot of those fields. This was true where DEC VAX and MODCOMP minis were in use. They still do a lot of the "heavy lifting".