[cctalk] Re: "It's dead, Jim" Was: Re: Intel 3086

COBOL was recently added to the GCC compiler suite (as was Modula-2 and Algol 68). And gfortran sees lots and lots of development; it seems that various fields use it extensively still. Weather forecasting seems to be one example. And ADA has been and remains an active part of GCC, too. Not to mention that it's the foundation of VHDL (and the open source GHDL simulator is written in Ada). As for assembly language, that certainly is still alive. A FORTH package I use extensively on the Raspberry Pico is written mostly in Forth, but the rest in assembler -- no C to be found anywhere at all. For that matter, you can't program the Pico's programmable state machine engines in anything other than assembler, for the simple reason that nothing else will serve when you only have 32 words of program memory. paul