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It depends how you quantify better. If you mean easier to hire developers in, provides higher levels of abstraction, etc. then modern programming languages are
by onei 7y ago
It depends how you quantify better. If you mean easier to hire developers in, provides higher levels of abstraction, etc. then modern programming languages are generally better. If you value stability and cost, as those who own these COBOL do, then you don't care about what it's running on and what you have is good enough until it suddenly isn't. 50 years is a long time to find bugs and modern applications don't have anything close to that level of hardening.
- goatinaboat 7y agoyou mean easier to hire developers in, provides higher levels of abstraction, etc. then modern programming languages are generally better That’s a subtle distinction, in JavaScript a high level of abstraction means hiding the details of the DOM and how the interface works, whereas in COBOL or FORTRAN what you’re really abstracting is the problem domain itself. Availability of programmers is part driven by the market but largely by programmers themselves who try to avoid mature and established technologies and chase the hottest new trend. So it’s true what you say, but it doesn’t happen because it has to but because people want it to.