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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
by serf 7y ago
> 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.
- drdeadringer 7y agoWho besides "government" and related spin-offs such as DoD contractors use COBOL? 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.