The Golden Oldies
The language - new version - strengths
- Fortran - Fortran23 - very fast, math, science, research
- Cobol - kept cobbled together - banking, other records
- Lisp - Common Lisp - making programming languages and more
- Prolog - SWI Prolog - logic, robotics, AI
- SmallTalk - Squeek - original OO language - systems, apps, etc.
- Ada - Ada 2022 - security, military systems
- Pascal - Free Pascal - general purpose, learning
Possible applications
Some things I may try to build in these languages
- Fortran - data science and/or math tool(s)
- Cobol - find a good way to modernize legacy code
- Lisp - use dialect Dr Racket to make a language
- Prolog - robotics or AI application
- Smalltalk - small interface or game
- Ada - distributed ledger (blockchain) app
- Pascal - medium game or system
- ..and possibly a code editor for all these languages that can work in the browser!
Results
I'll update this as I go
- Fortran - relearning
- Cobol - finding out more
- Lisp - learning
- Prolog - learning
- Smalltalk - learning
- Ada - learning
- Pascal - relearning