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> "Used today in production" does not mean that it's not dead I don't think you know what 'dead' means

• Davidbrcz 4y ago
  Just to add on that. In 2015, Paris Airport Air Traffic Software were running on windows 3.1. Is windows 3.1 outdated ? Yes. No longer a public facing product ? Yes. Dead ? Absolutely not (at least back then, maybe it got decommissioned). Around that time, a friend of mine was doing his master Thesis in an astronomy lab. He had to load fortran 77 routines from a 5" floppy disk that were doing critical computation (they were in the process of migrating). Same diagnosis: outdated, became a niche product, but not dead at all.
  • kgwgk 4y ago
    Are there new things being developed based on windows 3.1? Are there new things being developed based on lisp? The analogy is not very good.
    • ctrlmeta 4y ago
      > Are there new things being developed based on windows 3.1? No > Are there new things being developed based on lisp? Yes. > The analogy is not very good. I guess I am missing your point. Care to elaborate your point?
      • kgwgk 4y ago
        Lisp and Windows 3.1 are “not dead” in very different ways. Put otherwise, as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33465597 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33465597 says one could define “dead” in a way that Win 3.1 is dead but Lisp is not (not more than usual anyway).