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by oaw-bct-ar-bamf 2548 days ago
I am relatively new to a project that is being sold and used in the order of millions for approximately 25 to thirty years.

It was refreshing to find out that one of the approximately 7 languages that contribute to the final executable that was abandoned in ~2007 has been revived and is now (2016ish) being maintained by Eclipse

These kind of things make you realise that the Silicon Valley way of doing things is not the silver bullet.

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Yep .. it is always painful to hear stuff like "if you don't use [insert whatever is hype right now]; then you are not a real engineer" coming from a colleague.

People that have spent their careers in the silicon valley have a very distorted view of tech.