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I disagree with your definition of modern programmers. I mean, we still emulate VT100 terminals on our 2020 MacBooks (poorly), so the implication that everythin

I disagree with your definition of modern programmers. I mean, we still emulate VT100 terminals on our 2020 MacBooks (poorly), so the implication that everything old must be renewed is - in theory - good, but COBOL is probably not the first thing that comes to my mind here... Modern COBOL does not enforce CAPS LOCK anymore though - and you can even skip the 7-columns indentation if you wish!

simias 6y ago
To be clear I wasn't making a judgement of value, I was just stating matter-of-factly that I've been a professional dev for over 15 years and while I did occasionally encounter some more niche languages I haven't actually bumped into a COBOL listing if I wasn't specifically looking for it. Fortran, Scheme, Haskell, Erlang, Modula? Occasionally. COBOL, never.
- the_only_law 6y ago
  > Modula Ok now I’m curious...
  - simias 6y ago
    FreeBSD's old CVSup was written in Modula-3: https://docs.freebsd.org/doc/3.0-RELEASE/usr/share/doc/handbook/cvsup:install.html https://docs.freebsd.org/doc/3.0-RELEASE/usr/share/doc/handb...
    - the_only_law 6y ago
      Neat, I’ve been down a rabbit hole with many of Wirth’s languages a few times, but never properly learned them. I think I tried to get some Modula 2 or Modula 3 gcc frontend to work a while back with little luck.