• cerement@slrpnk.net
    16·
    6 months ago

    the old languages still have their fans – and COBOL, Fortran, Ada, and Lisp are still holding strong in their respective niches

    • Deebster
      14·
      6 months ago

      Lisp variants like Clojure are being used for new projects (e.g. Logseq) but I’d be surprised to hear of anyone choosing COBOL for a greenfield project.

      • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
        111·
        6 months ago

        Yeah the only reason someone should learn COBOL is job security and potentially making a living moving things over. No reason to start a project in the lang. You can make flat files into ODBCs nowadays.

        I suppose the ability to be left alone because everyone is afraid the COBOL person leaves and the company goes under is a good reason :)

    • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
      82·
      6 months ago

      I took a principles of programming languages course a while back and got to touch on a lot of these old languages. My professor had huge hard-on for Lisp. Don’t get me wrong. The simplicity of the language is admirable. But reading and parsing that shit gave me headaches. No me gusta.