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If you tell us a little about why you're asking the question, it might help to stimulate conversation.
by chmaynard 5y ago
If you tell us a little about why you're asking the question, it might help to stimulate conversation.
- ncmncm 5y agoSilence is also an answer. When discussing the decline of a language, the only meaningful number is how much of it is being written right now. Anything already written in it will continue to exist, in some sense, indefinitely, and may even continue to be run. Is IBM 1401 alive? Lots of 1401 code is being run (probably via a stack of emulators) for payroll, but no new 1401 code is being written, or even compiled to.