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by serf
2243 days ago
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> If enough people say it’s dead and believe it in their heart, it makes it true. except for COBOL, which has the Schrodingers' property of having been (called) dead for 40+ years, but also somehow powering the world and its' infrastructure. |
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Does "subsidized zombification" count for a programming language being otherwise dead?
Side Note: 20 years ago a SciFi book introduced me to the idea of "Software Archaeology". These days, such a term is slowly gaining traction as a job description. I've had to professionally dabble into this myself from time to time.