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Nobody bothers to write about the languages and technologies that are actually dead.

As someone who has worked with dying languages, that is wrong. There are always blog posts about dying languages too.

haha, I think this is a good point where headlines are opposite of reality: "Ruby is dead", "Cobol is alive", etc

COBOL is still being used though. Not sure if that's what you meant.

What I want to know is if any variation of Algol is used in any production context today.