Dynamic languages

[Ben Last]

> From Tom B.
>     I figured that I wouldn't be able to find any truly dead computer
> language. I met a technician at U of Minnesota Physics department who
> collected PDP11's and programmed only in fourth. When I asked him why he
> replied, 'If I don't do it who will'.

When a language is new, there's no money in programming it; nobody uses it.
When a language is on the up, there's money, but everybody's learning it.
When a language is the current Big Idea, there's no money in it; everyone
uses it.
When a language is dying, there's no money in it, everyone's getting out.

When a language is all but dead, and a company has large amounts of software
written in it, and you're one of the very few who can still programme in
it... there's BIG money.

Such is the justification of the few COBOL programmers I know of.

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