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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by webmaven on Thursday November 12, 2020 @04:12PM (#25075116)
> The tiobe index lists Java and C in those spots.

That list is ranking languages by current popularity, though, rather than 'importance'.

I'd define 'importance' as more along the lines of "amount of havoc created if all software written using that language were broken/deleted at once".

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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by govg on Friday November 13, 2020 @02:01AM (#25079756)
Wouldn't languages like COBOL rank pretty highly because a lot of legacy banking systems are written in that?
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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by webmaven on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:45AM (#25108486)
Yes, but frankly, C would still cause more havoc because even if the mainframes somehow continued to run, they would still be effectively inaccessible over any network.
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