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This is true. Back in the day, COBOL was marketed to businiess people as an easy to learn code to just get stuff done. Serious programming was done with FORTRAN.

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Actually, FORTRAN was marketed to scientists, not for "serious programming" which was still done in assembler.

Why sometimes still today someone's Jupyter notebook of data science Python is calling into FORTRAN libraries under the hood.

still true today. (not really, but there is a lot of f77 out there...)

I don't know anyone who uses f77 anymore, but f90 and up is still popular in scientific research.

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