Sunday, February 24, 2013

Software sites not age. It matures. Or it just drops out. The best case I can think of is FORTRAN. It...

Software sites not age. It matures. Or it just drops out.



The best case I can think of is FORTRAN. It is older than anything I work with, but I'm told it comes with libraries that are just bulletproof. Young coders come in, having no experience with anything like it in undergraduate CS programs, and initially think it's ancient and crufty, but find out that over the decades, all the problems have been engineered out.




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