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Programming mavens… are languages potentially immortal past a point of sophistication? Is there such a thing as “paradigm inadequacy” that dooms languages below that point to extinction? Eg: COBOL seems doomed, C and Lisp seem immortally plateaued, PHP is on dinosaur trial…
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C gets a lot more code written in it today than COBOL, but I don't see it as more immortal - COBOL will be running heavy loads through both our lifetimes. What does "doomed" mean in this context?
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