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5 programming languages on the wall

The oldest programming language still running

Bash, running 37 years 101 days since 1989.

37y 101d Bash has outlasted every other programming language here.
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Ranked by how long it has run

oldest first

  1. Bash since 1989 37y 101d
  2. Python since 1991 35y 209d
  3. PHP since 1995 31y 101d
  4. JavaScript since 1995 30y 287d
  5. Go since 2009 16y 311d

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