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Re:Viability of Unpopular Programming Languages (2018) by tcbasche on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @06:36PM (#22754211)
Yeah! "insert niche language that I use" isn't even number 1? That ranking system is just plain wrong!
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Re:Viability of Unpopular Programming Languages (2018) by tylerchilds on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @07:07PM (#22754484)
Me: Everyone I know uses _language_, this is trash!

Also me: First programming job.

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Re:Viability of Unpopular Programming Languages (2018) by tcbasche on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @07:52PM (#22754814)
I'd love to see a study done on developers - how their first job has influenced their zealotry for programming languages / technologies
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Re:Viability of Unpopular Programming Languages (2018) by GnarfGnarf on Thursday April 02, 2020 @09:49AM (#22758905)
My first job involved RPG (Report Program Generator), one of the most loathsome and repulsive languages. Compared to RPG, COBOL is Python.

I'm surprised to see RPG is still a thing, not surprised its ranking is so low.

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