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[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I guess I should have put a /s but I thought it was pretty obvious. The 68 in Algol 68 is 1968. COBOL is from 1959. Modula-2 is from 1977.

My point exactly was that all the hot new languages are built with LLVM while the “new” language options on GCC are languages from the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s.

I am not even exaggerating. That is just what the projects look like right now.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

I would guess those languages are added for preservation and compatibility reasons, and it's also an important thing

[–] parlaptie@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

I had my suspicions that that's what you were going for, I just thought I'd make it obvious.

[–] brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

If Algol68 is from 1968, shouldn't Modula-2 be from 1898?