On 6/17/2026 1:13 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
For a languageto get CALLED "dead" does not require any of those
objective criteria. It gets called dead if somebody hasn't heard
anything about it in a long time.
Somebody who hasn't heard anything about mainframes in years thinks that
mainframes are dead.
Somebody who hasn't heard anything about COBOL in years thinks that
COBOL is dead.
COBOL is "dead" because academia said it was. The price you pay for
not letting the ivory tower masters drive the bus.
bill
