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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 occasi
by 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 agoFreeBSD'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 agoNeat, 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.