And to this day, Fortran and Cobol are still in use. It seems that many languages get traction because they look sexy and trendy, but fall by the wayside once their weakness surfaces and the Next Big ThingTM shows up that is supposed to fix all of the problems of the previous language.
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1 u/ratsmack 10 Aug 2015 05:23
And to this day, Fortran and Cobol are still in use. It seems that many languages get traction because they look sexy and trendy, but fall by the wayside once their weakness surfaces and the Next Big ThingTM shows up that is supposed to fix all of the problems of the previous language.
0 u/svipbo 10 Aug 2015 17:55
This is one of the best programming family trees I've seen by far.