Cobol - Re: UnDead languages?

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Re: UnDead languages?

E. Robert Tisdale

2004-07-08, 8:55 pm

Michael Metcalf wrote:

> I just happened to hear an editor of the new edition of the Concise Oxford
> English Dictionary say on the radio that obsolete words get removed to make
> way for new ones. Her two examples were Snobol and Cobol.
> Is this a valid definition of a dead computing language?

No.
These are *undead* languages.
They are uncertain about their final destination --
computer programming language heaven or hell --
so they persist in a partially decomposed state.
They are zombie languages.

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