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Re:Python 2 Is Dead by serf on Saturday April 25, 2020 @06:37PM (#22982228)
> If enough people say it’s dead and believe it in their heart, it makes it true.

except for COBOL, which has the Schrodingers' property of having been (called) dead for 40+ years, but also somehow powering the world and its' infrastructure.

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Re:Python 2 Is Dead by drdeadringer on Saturday April 25, 2020 @07:33PM (#22982610)
Who besides "government" and related spin-offs such as DoD contractors use COBOL?

Does "subsidized zombification" count for a programming language being otherwise dead?

Side Note: 20 years ago a SciFi book introduced me to the idea of "Software Archaeology". These days, such a term is slowly gaining traction as a job description. I've had to professionally dabble into this myself from time to time.

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