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Mostly dead influential programming languages (202...
BASIC is the scripting language used by Microsoft Office. Saying that it powers millions of businesses is probably not an exaggeration.
Pascal, particularly the Delphi/Object Pascal flavor, is also still in widespread use today.
Rochus
on July 15, 2025
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Also Smalltalk is still in wide use; ML is also used; there are even many PL/I applications in use today and IBM continues to give support.
fuzztester
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I don't know, I heard somewhere that even the C language is in wide use, still ... ;)
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Pascal, particularly the Delphi/Object Pascal flavor, is also still in widespread use today.