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The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore (COBOL History lesson) (www.youtube.com)

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[–] AlecSadler 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Like, 70% or more of the web runs on PHP. That's also not going anywhere anytime soon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Right. At least 70%. I've heard it estimated as high as 97%.

And it's losing popularity with new development, (and with new developers) while WordPress, Drupal and WikiMedia are everywhere.

Perfect recipe to be the next Cobol.

[–] AlecSadler 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh I see what you're saying.

Dang, maybe I should learn PHP...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

I liked laravel. It's very rails like.