Fortran

Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #219

Lex Fridman

Knuth mentioned IBM's development of FORTRAN and their decision not to keep it proprietary, setting an early example for open software. He also humorously noted a FORTRAN compiler spent 80% of its time reading comment cards.

Coffee with Brian Kernighan - Computerphile

Computerphile

Clara Sousa-Silva: Searching for Signs of Life on Venus and Other Planets | Lex Fridman Podcast #195

Lex Fridman

A legacy programming language that Clara Sousa-Silva found very useful due to its prevalence in older scientific code, despite not being a 'fun' language.

Rob Reid: The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses and Lab Leaks | Lex Fridman Podcast #193

Lex Fridman

An older programming language that Lex Fridman is looking for an expert to interview about.

Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #109

Lex Fridman

An early high-level programming language from IBM, designed for scientific and engineering computations, still in use today.

The $3 Trillion AI Coding Opportunity

a16z Deep Dives

Mentioned as a legacy programming language often used by banks, alongside Cobalt, that can be ported to Java with AI assistance.

Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #341

Lex Fridman

An older programming language, mentioned as an exception to curly brace syntax and widely used in scientific and mathematical computing.