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Re:Technologies I thought my son would never use by carlmr on Monday April 12, 2021 @09:38AM (#26779255)
Also COBOL is still around and most people don't need to learn it anymore.
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Re:Technologies I thought my son would never use by enriquto on Monday April 12, 2021 @10:14AM (#26779667)
Most people don't need to learn C either; or any programming language, for that matter.
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Re:Technologies I thought my son would never use by carlmr on Monday April 12, 2021 @10:42AM (#26779961)
Sure but I think programmers is an implicit assumption here when talking about which programming languages to learn. We don't need to start splitting hairs here.

And COBOL is extremely niche, while C is still quite common and useful to know.

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