Post #2554175
2025-06-03 23:38 UTC
@siracusa@mastodon.social Both Perl and Python are closer on the geologic fossil record to COBOL (66 years old) than to our present day.
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@MartyFouts@mastodon.online 2025-06-04 01:02
@doncruse@appellate.social @siracusa@mastodon.social Yes, but Perl is from an earlier geological era
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@curtosis@mastodon.social 2025-06-04 01:27
@doncruse@appellate.social And yet 40yo COBOL samples are still viable, while with 10 yo Python the best you can do is make a fossil rubbing.
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@davebarnes@c.im 2025-06-04 01:37
@doncruse@appellate.social @siracusa@mastodon.social What is wrong with COBOL?
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@unsaturated@discuss.systems 2025-06-04 02:59
@doncruse@appellate.social @siracusa@mastodon.social maybe in another 33 years they’ll finally release the global interpreter lock
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@Alphacheez@social.veraciousnetwork.com 2025-06-04 13:12
@doncruse@appellate.social @caseyliss@mastodon.social @siracusa@mastodon.social so this means both python and perl are older now than COBOL was when they were created