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jeffery c24-Apr-17 3:40
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Vivi Chellappa22-Apr-17 16:01
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The nuclear bomb launch systems AREN'T written in COBOL.

The bomb simulation routines were written in JOVIAL, a variant of Algol.

Most programs connected with the nuclear industry were written in Fortran. One just needs to look at the infrequent ads from Los Alamos National Laboratories and Livermore Labs to figure this out.

COBOL figures prominently in systems for banks, stock trading, and large bureaucracies such as the IRS and the Social Security Administration.

By the way, ADA was used when the government replaced the creaky Air Traffic Control system serving the USA. The IBM processors used for Air Traffic Control had not been manufactured for a decade or more (no, they were not the 360/370/390 processors) but I think the room-sized processors could have been replaced with small CMOS processors with the identical instruction set.

Reading the ads in Washington Post (during the glory days of the Cold War), one could see that the ELINT (electronic intelligence gathering) systems and COM3 (Command, Control and Communication) systems were also written in assembly language for the unique processors produced by IBM.

Just FYI.

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