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> Eventually you need to admit COBOL is dead and rewrite. What does that suppose to mean To frame your argument, TIOBE ranks COBOL as the 19th most popular la
by motorest 2y ago
> Eventually you need to admit COBOL is dead and rewrite.
What does that suppose to mean
To frame your argument, TIOBE ranks COBOL as the 19th most popular language, ahead of Ruby.
- steveBK123 2y agoIt's also ahead of Swift and Kotlin
- bluGill 2y agoJust because it is populate doesn't mean it isn't dead. Or should be dead. COBOL was really innovated in the day, but many of those innovations proved to be bad ideas. However switching to something else is very hard and expensive - thus it continues on.
- gf000 2y agoTIOBE is as good as counting the number of times a programming language appears in a meme in r/programmerhumor. It's beyond useless. This is a better list, and cobol is not even part of the top 20, while Ruby is at 9th place: https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2024/03/08/language-rankings-1-24/ https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2024/03/08/language-rankings-1-2...