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
Newer Languages I'm interested in:
I'll update decisions and progress with these as I go.
- Julia - good for sci/math and faster than Python
- Elixir - possible uses for blockchain and financial systems
- Racket - a modern Lisp dialect good for making other languages
- TypeScript - possibly AI/ML - also works with my game engine
- Lua - game scripting, embedded systems (IoT)
- Rust - modern supposedly secure language
- Go - fairly fast and safe dev for web, cloud, utilities, etc.