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Is someone who is no longer having children but is still a major team player at their employer “mostly dead”?

• lolinder 4y ago
  Since we're talking about languages, a better question would be "is a language in which no new works are written but which has a large catalog of past works that are still studied by thousands of people 'mostly dead'?" Most would say yes.
  • The_Colonel 4y ago
    > in which no new works are written There's a lot of new code written in most of these languages. It might be existing systems, but the code being written is new.
  • enduser 4y ago
    The many COBOL programmers are not being paid to study a dead language, they are being paid to adapt, evolve, and maintain living systems written in that language.