I suppose so ... in the process of building various little single-board-computers based on historical microprocessors, I end up using their corresponding assembly languages, some of which are probably no longer really in commercial use.
Mostly on UNIX I just use C (or Perl, or ...) but on other platforms where other languages are available, like on VMS, or on platforms where C (or even Pascal) is _not_ available (say, MTS or MVS 3.8J on Hercules) I like to play around with some of the older languages, that you might not see used so much anymore ... Pascal, LISP, FORTRAN, PL/I, SNOBOL, of course good ole BASIC ... whatever's available and I have some reference materials for (I enjoy collecting good old EE/CS textbooks as well) ... mostly these are little "toy" programs though, just to run the compilers through their paces and see the OS run a few executables ... I'm not doing any real development in FORTRAN or PL/I :O Best, Sean On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Eric Christopherson < echristopher...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a subset of this group for people who like to program in > languages or language implementations or libraries that are no longer > in common mainstream use? Or other groups for such a thing? > > -- > Eric Christopherson >
