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Re:Go is Google's language, not ours by smt88 on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @02:53AM (#19978506)
Ten years is a very short time for a programming language. Python is decades old and hasn't hit its peak popularity yet. I don't know of a single mainstream language that has died, except for perhaps ColdFusion or ActionScript.
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Re:Go is Google's language, not ours by Spearchucker on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @03:36AM (#19978772)
Depends on how you define death. There's ALGOL, SNOGOL, LOGO, Pascal, Visicalc, APL... They were all mainstream at a point, and they all still exist, but the userbase has become tiny.
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Re:Go is Google's language, not ours by hollerith on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @03:39AM (#19978806)
OK, but it is "SNOBOL".
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Re:Go is Google's language, not ours by ncmncm on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @03:47AM (#19978856)
That too. :-)
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Re:Go is Google's language, not ours by sagichmal on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @08:09AM (#19980248)
> Python is decades old and hasn't hit its peak popularity yet.

What? Python's peak (2.7) has come and gone.

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