Cast not your Perl before swine?

[Charles Curley]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 11:25:57AM -0700, Steve wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Just wanted to get a good discussion going on the merits of knowing
> and using lingua archae vs lingua franca.
> Lingua archae is my term for languages that once were popular but have
> been fading out of fashion and entered a general state of disuse.
> Languages such as Perl, RPG, COBOL, BASIC, FORTRAN, assembler and of
> course the list goes on and on.

http://xkcd.com/224/

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