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> Very few people still code with the legacies of the 1970s: ML, Pascal, Scheme, Smalltalk. Freepascal/Delphi user and Smalltalk lover here. I beg to differ.

• KMnO4 4y ago
  Very few is not none, but I still think “very few” is an appropriate adjective.
  • Aloha 4y ago
    Our flagship product is still Delphi based. It's an old application, but yeah.
    • nequo 4y ago
      What does your Delphi-based product do?
      • Aloha 4y ago
        It's a radio dispatch console. They're currently trying to transport it to C#, but its slower going than developing in Delphi, ironically, the thing that makes us move to C# is developer availability.
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• sargstuff 4y ago
  Cobol legacy programmers make quite a bit because of such small numbers / no longer actively/widely taught at university level. The multi-decade investment in cobol for critical systems (banking) does not make for quick/easy switch.