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I try to only use 20+ year old tech and it's done me good... Currently SQL (SQLite), Perl, PHP, Bash, text files, csv (psv), HTML, JS, CSS.

• oarabbus_ 4y ago
  Even Python 2.0 is over 20+ years old!
  • forgotmypw17 4y ago
    I avoid Python because of it's track record with breaking changes. Almost every time I try to run something Python, I run into version incompatibility issues, which is not the experience I want others to have with my project.
    • simonw 4y ago
      The vast majority of breaking changes should have been down to the Python 2 to Python 3 upgrade - since then I've seen very few breaking changes affect my projects. The trick I use to protect against them is to run my test suite against multiple Python versions using GitHub Actions, e.g. here: https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/blob/main/.github/workflows/test.yml https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/blob/main/.github/wor...
      • forgotmypw17 4y ago
        I prefer to just write in Perl and without third-party modules, which is backwards compatible to 5.000 (1994)
• irrational 4y ago
  One of my duties at work is maintaining a ColdFusion website. Apparently CF was a valid choice for a server side language 20+ years ago (the age of the web site). Who knew?
  • listenallyall 4y ago
    Everyone who used ColdFusion? I mean, why do you think ColdFusion was created?
• listenallyall 4y ago
  XSLT will blow your mind
  • Kichererbsen 4y ago
    literally. it was my first real exposure to functional programming.
• xnx 4y ago
  Regex pays dividends