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knowitnone3 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: C Is Best (2025)

if you don't think programming languages can get outdated then why is assembly, fortran, lisp, smalltalk, pascal, basic practically disappeared? programming languages are not like math, it's like the moon

goku12 5 months ago [–]

Many of those are still under active development (both language and tooling) and code is still being written in them. They have hardly disappeared.

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