Re:Why I'm Making Python 2.8
by gaius on Saturday December 10, 2016 @07:15AM
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Your comment is particularly apt as the programming language du jour is driven by fashion, not technology. We could still be using COBOL and be just as productive churning our CRUD apps as we are with the latest JS frameworks today... But one's hot and one's not.
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The reason COBOL is obsolete is because there are no useful programs which are easiest to express in COBOL anymore, unless you are already using COBOL. It us truly obsolete in a way unrelated to fashion. Even if somebody were to supply the tooling, writing apps in COBOL would not be as productive as using a more modern language. It just lacks the expressiveness.
For comparison, C is not obsolete because a lot of useful programs are easiest to express in C still. I'd argue that C is obsolete for App development too, but there will be people who disagree with that.