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by davimack 2638 days ago
Basically nothing down in database-land has changed, from what I can tell. Added features, but everything in those languages is designed to be backwards compatible (unless you're talking PL-sql, which has had some major shifts, to bring it in line with the rest of the world). And that's having done database stuff since Paradox for DOS and Access 2.0 (I think - might have been 3, but ... ancient days, anyway).

For the rest of my stack, it's mostly Visual Studio, and it's shifted a bunch over those 25 years: VB5 -> VB6 -> VB.NET until .NET 2.0 -> C#

Whatever changes there have been in HTML & JS, I've gone through, plus some of the DHTML weirdnesses that came along the way.

I'm going to say that, other than databases, there's about the same amount of needed change. And even with databases, those do change, in that you might want to get a bit more of a life and use something other than MSSQL for a change, which amounts to such a shift as the others have been.