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[{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1563028970915","data":"The modern computer science world is filled with programming languages like C, C++, Java and now the most popular language Python. Many of the CS students or enthusiasts always keep buzzing about these so called most common or familiar programming languages. But, being a CS guy myself, I was shell shocked to know that two programming languages now in their 60's still continue to play a key role in running many real life proceedings and to be precise there are two old, in fact two very old programming languages that still continue to exist even with this amount of technological advancement. <\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1563028970916","data":"Let me bring down the curtains, FORTRAN and COBOL are the programming languages that I was talking about. So, how did I come to know about them in the first place. There are two instances that led me to this article, the first was when a university professor from USA was taking a guest session for us. At the end of all the fancy talk about abroad studies and technologies like AI, the professor asked us whether we know anything about COBOL, like most of the modern CS students we had that null expression on our faces, other than just going through that name in some book or so we have no clue of what it meant. He just gave us a smile followed by a very brief info about it. After the session, I tried doing a bit of research but the so-called ignorance struck and I never went deeper to know more about it. The second time I heard that name is from an uncle of mine. This time I felt like it's better to know more about this not-much spoken about programming language. He gave me great info that let me to dig up more details about COBOL online, and that's exactly when I was amused to know about this language and also about it's vintage companion FORTRAN that is still out there. So, what exactly are these languages and why are they not extinct yet?  <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1563028970921","data":"5d2a0d454a65b"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1563028970917","data":"FORTRAN<\/b>, which stands for FORmula TRANslation was designed by John Backus in 1957. The language turned out be a savior to programmers and other qualified people who spent many painstaking hours of coding with machine level or assembly level language. FORTRAN, termed as the higher level programming language took off to a huge success. It became extremely useful for researchers who are in need of performing complicated numerical and scientific calculations. They even found it easy as this language didn't demand any high end programming skills. The existence of this language even after 62 years is mainly due to the release of updated versions as the years passed by and the other important factor being it's feature of parallel computing. The language continues to be used for astronomical purposes, research in the fields of science and so on.<\/p>COBOL<\/b>, which stands for COmmon Business Oriented Language was designed by CODASYL in 1959. Straight after it's design, COBOL has been incorporated in to many banks mainframe as they were in need for a sophisticated mainframe technology. That's where COBOL started becoming the backbone of all the financial operations and managing banks were dealing with. According to many sources, even now many reputed and very crucial banks have COBOL as their mainframe and changing their roots of managing from COBOL to the latest languages cannot happen overnight and it is ridiculously high price issue to alter their methodologies from roots. So, it is kinda clear that COBOL cannot be replaced that easily ensuring a secure future of existence and also a growing need for young COBOL developers makes it a promising career choice as well.   <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1563028970919","data":"5d2a0b0c139d8"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1563028970920","data":"5d2a0ccf37910"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1563028970918","data":"There are lot more things that one can know about these vintage programming languages and I have just scraped the surface when it comes to the information regarding them in this article. Hope this was useful to you guys and hopefully ignited your curiosity to know more about them... <\/p>"}]

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