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wiseowise 26 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)

Multiple generations of your family will be long dead before last JS instruction gets executed. Unless there's going to happen a global thermonuclear war. I still bet on JS surviving over most humans.

Macha 26 days ago | [–]

The same is true of COBOL and Fortran. But also for most purposes, they are practically* dead.

* With the one exception of BLAS which is widely used via NumPy

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