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>> Isn't ada like 40 years old? How have its users not found new languages? C is more than 50 years old. And yet there are new versions of the C standard that
by thesuperbigfrog 2y ago
>> Isn't ada like 40 years old? How have its users not found new languages?
C is more than 50 years old. And yet there are new versions of the C standard that keep the language up to date:
https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/23 https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/23
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C23_(C_standard_revision) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C23_(C_standard_revision)
Ada is about 45 years old. And yet there are new versions of the Ada standard that keep the language up to date:
http://ada-auth.org/standards/ada22.html http://ada-auth.org/standards/ada22.html
The same can be said for FORTRAN and COBOL which both have 2023 standards and are still widely in use.
Programming languages do not age the same way as physical objects. Merely being old does not make them less useful and in many cases the code that was written decades ago still works fine.
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