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thesuperbigfrog · 2025-02-09T23:14:43 1739142883

>> Isn't ada like 40 years old? How have its users not found new languages?

C is more than 50 years old. And yet there are new versions of the C standard that keep the language up to date:

https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/23

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C23_(C_standard_revision)

Ada is about 45 years old. And yet there are new versions of the Ada standard that keep the language up to date:

http://ada-auth.org/standards/ada22.html

The same can be said for FORTRAN and COBOL which both have 2023 standards and are still widely in use.

Programming languages do not age the same way as physical objects. Merely being old does not make them less useful and in many cases the code that was written decades ago still works fine.

jghn · 2025-02-10T00:59:49 1739149189

Python is roughly 35 years old. People still seem to use that one.

Jtsummers · 2025-02-10T00:00:48 1739145648

> EDIT: as if Hollywood has ever given a fuck about dignity

What does this have to do with anything?

cmrdporcupine · 2025-02-10T01:06:30 1739149590

It's interesting to nerds. Does that bother you?

Man I miss Lambda The Ultimate.

riffraff · 2025-02-10T01:31:44 1739151104

I do too. The crazy thing is that LtU stopped being updated frequently at a time when there was (what seemed to be) a sort of renaissance in PL research

kats · 2025-02-10T00:05:42 1739145942

Hacker News only posts about languages nobody uses. There are more posts about D than there are about Java. Ada is being marketed because it's obsolete and no one uses it.