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by mcdramamean 2128 days ago
The best language is the one you can make money with or positively affect the world. Please grow up out of this old debate. You all sound like 3 year olds...
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azangru 2128 days ago
You can make money with COBOL. Does it make it the best language? Considering that you can make money with any other language as well?
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hu3 2128 days ago
You're comparing COBOL with a language that has namespaces, traits, closures, reflection and just gained a JIT compiler, named arguments, annotations and match expressions.

Exhibit A of your parent's point.

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