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by zozbot234 1554 days ago
There are millions of lines of code written in COBOL in production use, pretty much all of them addressing business-critical needs. FORTRAN scientific codes are not far behind, either. Better get crackin'.
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Yet COBOL and Fortran standards are way more modern than WG14 will ever bother doing to C.