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by jonnycat 1458 days ago
Nobody bothers to write about the languages and technologies that are actually dead.
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dariusj18 1458 days ago
As someone who has worked with dying languages, that is wrong. There are always blog posts about dying languages too.
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ydnaclementine 1458 days ago
haha, I think this is a good point where headlines are opposite of reality: "Ruby is dead", "Cobol is alive", etc
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ravenstine 1458 days ago
COBOL is still being used though. Not sure if that's what you meant.

What I want to know is if any variation of Algol is used in any production context today.

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