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A lot of this is incredibly myopic. The author seems to think that because a tool isn't useful to him that it isn't used at all. Also, there's the repeated noti
by wyrm 5y ago
A lot of this is incredibly myopic. The author seems to think that because a tool isn't useful to him that it isn't used at all. Also, there's the repeated notion that some currently-popular new toy has "won" and forever displaced everything before it. Nothing really works that way.
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoYep... "tech of the week has won", until next week, when "tech of that week has won", and most of the stuff declared 'dead' will still be working and in use pretty much everywhere. C dead? XML dead? GUIs dead? Regex dead? .... yeah... no.
- djbusby 5y agoCobol, so dead. Perl, dead. Remember when PHP was dead? And there were two things on the front page today about PHP ;). No death, only zombies.