amoroso,
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Programming language clichés never die. That's perhaps why Jim Cownie had to debunk the "death" of Fortran:

https://cpufun.substack.com/p/is-fortran-a-dead-language

and the XYplorer developer constantly needs to justify using a "toy" language like Basic for production code:

https://www.xyplorer.com/faq-topic.php?id=VB6

Jim wrote:

"For reasons I cannot understand, “legacy” has become an insult, despite most of our knowledge being a legacy from previous generations."

janus,

@amoroso You can write a FORTRAN program in any language.

amoroso,
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@janus That's the ultimate legacy.

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