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		BeetleB on Aug 6, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fa... > Even then, FORTRAN 77 is a major change over FORTRAN (1957 and even the later FORTRAN 66). That's because FORTRAN is one of the oldest languages, and you'd expect lots of changes as the whole field develops. If you use that as a metric, most languages will appear stagnant. Python hasn't changed much in the last 20 years, for example.

varjag on Aug 7, 2021 [–]

Yep, folks often fail to distinguish between old and OLD.

One might think Eclipse IDE is old. But Fortran predates the three-point seatbelts. The Vietnam War. Berlin Crisis. The Space Race.

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