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submitted 9 months ago by nifty@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

the last generation to write FORTRAN

runs to look out window

My God is the sun turning into a red giant?!

Oh no, whew, that's a relief! Guess the FORTRAN programmers will be relevant for a little longer too then.

(As a .NET dev, I wish some languages (or versions of languages) would die but i really think once code has been written it never goes away!)

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

[COBOL has entered the chat.]

Capitalism will never let a programming language die, if it's still less expensive than an alternative.