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COBOL and PASCAL are more than enough for everything that matters. PROVE ME WRONG, BITCHES!

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Not possible to prove you wrong here

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We needed C++ to get viruses off the ground and Assembler because the computer had to understand what the user wanted. But yes. COBOL is the future.

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Look up COBOL.

So your saying If I learn this I can charge banks ridiculous sums to work it. Nice.

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If a large business does anything with money or insurance, there is COBOL running on a mainframe somewhere handling it. I used to be at an insurance company and the IT Chief architect had a raging hard on for Windows and his mission was to get rid of the Z/OS mainframe. Fortunately they fired his dumb ass when the CEO was changed out and they got rid of all the old guard.

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apparently only the snake

it is going to strangle you, eventually, but... who cares

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Somewhat .

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There are only two solutions to this- many languages that specialize in a certain use case, or some God language that can do it all efficiently and cleanly. I get the feeling possibility #1 will continue to persist.

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"Someone has set us up the variables!"

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They need you to keep upgrading

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Because, in this order: - muh scale - muh scope - muh Turing completeness - muh structured data - muh reduced feature set - muh portability - muh datatype safety - muh classes - muh low-level virtual machines - use recursion from the top until the most perfect language is developed

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I should create that language. I will call it Poal. It'll be a combination of Perl, C++, and COBOL with copy libraries called Voats (think CPAN for Perl or Rocks for Lua).