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		jiggliemon on March 8, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders If you think newer “technology” (re: programming language or framework) is superior to older “technology” – you are likely agist, and part of the problem.

781 on March 8, 2019 [–]

So you think that someone saying that Python or C++ is superior to COBOL is ageist.

gerbilly on March 8, 2019 | [–]

Depending on the context yes.

If your bank has some COBOL systems running to keep accounts up to date, do you really want some team of pinheads to 'fix it' by porting it to python?

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