• Codex@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    the last generation to write FORTRAN

    runs to look out window

    My God is the sun turning into a red giant?!

    Oh no, whew, that’s a relief! Guess the FORTRAN programmers will be relevant for a little longer too then.

    (As a .NET dev, I wish some languages (or versions of languages) would die but i really think once code has been written it never goes away!)

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      8 months ago

      [COBOL has entered the chat.]

      Capitalism will never let a programming language die, if it’s still less expensive than an alternative.