8 points | by eps 14 hours ago
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I thought there were more discussions on this one, but I think it just came up in comments and that's what I'm remembering. Ones I found with more than a couple comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3585286 - Feb 2012
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9422622 - Apr 2015
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10214480 - Sep 2015
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19504023 - Mar 2019
... and they still don't!
Ok, so FORTRAN got replaced by C/C++ and OS/370 by a hundred variants of Unix.
For those who tuned in late, Linux is a clone of Unix (TM).
There is a whole generation of delphi programmers out there...
I thought there were more discussions on this one, but I think it just came up in comments and that's what I'm remembering. Ones I found with more than a couple comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3585286 - Feb 2012
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9422622 - Apr 2015
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10214480 - Sep 2015
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19504023 - Mar 2019
... and they still don't!
Ok, so FORTRAN got replaced by C/C++ and OS/370 by a hundred variants of Unix.
For those who tuned in late, Linux is a clone of Unix (TM).
There is a whole generation of delphi programmers out there...