I heard there is an object oriented version of COBOL. Now there is a surreal concept.

>COBOL.
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>I have it on good authority that some calculation routines I wrote in 1988 in FoxBase+ are still being used at the heart of a mission-critical insurance accounting application (20 years!).
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>>>Very cool; I knew someone must still use them. These commands were virtually forgotten at MS while I was there and Calvin was surprised they still worked when I pointed that out to him during the early VFP 9 product cycle.
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>>Just last week I added code to things which were written ages ago - the VCXAudit.prg (scans all your vcxes into a table so mc.prg can instantiate any class by just name, no need to know which vcx) now knows .prg based classes, because we now have aProcInfo. The funny thing is that it was written in 1999. I just added a dozen lines.
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>>And I redefined SetClock from Tom Rettig's envlib.prg, because it was defined as SetOnOff - and would break with my Set Clock Status, had to be a Set class now. That one was from 1995, I think.
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>>Find any other language where you can still use code from 13 years ago with just a minor tweak, or double its usability with just a few lines more. (mmm... Fortran? PostScript? Forth?)