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Re:Automated Refactoring of a U.S. Department of Defense Mai... by PorterDuff on Monday May 06, 2019 @03:18PM (#19842761)
Aha. That's why they keep inventing new languages.
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Re:Automated Refactoring of a U.S. Department of Defense Mai... by givehimagun on Monday May 06, 2019 @04:14PM (#19843329)
A fun fact - Java is over 23 years old. Don't know if anyone would call Java "new" anymore.
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Re:Automated Refactoring of a U.S. Department of Defense Mai... by JoeSmithson on Monday May 06, 2019 @04:39PM (#19843598)
It's actually almost the same amount of time C-to-Java as Java-to-now.
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Re:Automated Refactoring of a U.S. Department of Defense Mai... by js8 on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @04:04AM (#19847431)
And same amount of time Cobol-to-C?
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Re:Automated Refactoring of a U.S. Department of Defense Mai... by rtkwe on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @02:45PM (#19852247)
C started in 1972 so no. Cobol is close but was only 13 years between it's appearance and C.
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Re:Automated Refactoring of a U.S. Department of Defense Mai... by salty_biscuits on Monday May 06, 2019 @07:29PM (#19844977)
Like just like stegosaurus and t-rex
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Re:Automated Refactoring of a U.S. Department of Defense Mai... by lalos on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @12:51AM (#19846693)
Just like a fancy new javascript framework that get propped up by big companies. Can't have experienced developers if the framework is brand new!
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Re:Automated Refactoring of a U.S. Department of Defense Mai... by granshaw on Monday May 06, 2019 @09:36PM (#19845648)
In all seriousness, I think there’s a ton of waste involving languages - each language introduces its own package manager, doesn’t interop with other languages meaning you have to rewrite python’s requests library in #newlanguage2019 etc
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