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Lisp is responsible for most of the parts of programming widely considered enjoyable.
Fortran is still often used in some of our most performant libraries.
POSIX shell was one of the most important parts of unix-like systems becoming how they are today, and it's compatibility is still an invaluable glue for tying programs written in the 90's to programs written today.