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Re:COBOL has been "dead" for so long, my grandpa wrote about it by cies on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @02:42PM (#41723776)
I asked ChatGPT -- Please estimate the popularity of these languages, relative to the most popular one (that gets 100%). Base your answer on community activity on different platforms (stackoverflow, reddit, hacker news, dev.to, github) and the number of books available and sold: COBOL, Perl, PHP, BASIC, TCL, ColdFusion.

Estimated popularity:

    PHP: 100% (reference)
    Perl: 30%
    COBOL: 25%
    BASIC: 10%
    TCL: 8%
    ColdFusion: 5%
(I consider all of these dead, or, "in maintenance mode")
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Re:COBOL has been "dead" for so long, my grandpa wrote about it by rafark on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @07:22PM (#41725847)
Why php though? Php is as old as java and very popular and constantly updated.
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Re:COBOL has been "dead" for so long, my grandpa wrote about it by cies on Thursday October 03, 2024 @04:29AM (#41728507)
we need a reference... and PHP is the biggest language that has clearly better options available in it's space.

JS is not too pretty either, but I understand many believe it's the only lang the browser understands.

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