On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 11:25:57AM -0700, Steve wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Just wanted to get a good discussion going on the merits of knowing > and using lingua archae vs lingua franca. > Lingua archae is my term for languages that once were popular but have > been fading out of fashion and entered a general state of disuse. > Languages such as Perl, RPG, COBOL, BASIC, FORTRAN, assembler and of > course the list goes on and on.
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