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These statements of "longer" and "shorter" actually refers to probabilities. So it makes sense to state when something is not "longer", then it is "shorter". So
by szundi 4y ago
These statements of "longer" and "shorter" actually refers to probabilities. So it makes sense to state when something is not "longer", then it is "shorter". So I disagree, OP's statements about the Lindy effect makes sense.
Also someone commented about COBOL. Of course no one thinks COBOL "is around", what also means statistics about usage. COBOL is declining and almost no one uses it anymore, so it is safe to say "it is almost not around".
- tarboreus 4y agoThere are 220 billion lines of COBAL in production. Much of the most essential banking infrastructure in the world runs on COBAL, and is likely to indefinitely. https://www.bmc.com/blogs/cobol-trends/#:~:text=According%20to%20Reuters%2C%20you%20can,state%20of%20COBOL%20in%202020 https://www.bmc.com/blogs/cobol-trends/#:~:text=According%20.... The only way we stop using COBAL in production this century is to have some kind of apocalypse, or maybe an apotheosis.
- scubbo 4y agoGiven that the typo was made 3 times (suggesting that it's a misunderstanding, rather than a mistake), hopefully you will take this comment in the educational manner in which it's intended rather than being a snide "gotcha" - it's COBOL, not COBAL.