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minus-squaretiredofsametab@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 months agoI doubt it. It’s still used in a whole lot of medical and banking applications where there’s a lot of text manipulation since it’s really good at that (HL7 and other EDI stuff for instance).
minus-squareMajorHavoc@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoYeah. There’s always at least one mission critical Prel script that no one can read.
minus-squaremesamunefire@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoI made good money on EDI.
minus-squareAlecSadler@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·7 months agoLike, 70% or more of the web runs on PHP. That’s also not going anywhere anytime soon.
minus-squareMajorHavoc@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·7 months agoRight. 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.
minus-squareAlecSadler@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 months agoOh I see what you’re saying. Dang, maybe I should learn PHP…
minus-squaremesamunefire@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoI liked laravel. It’s very rails like.
My money is on PHP.
TCL?
Perl
I doubt it. It’s still used in a whole lot of medical and banking applications where there’s a lot of text manipulation since it’s really good at that (HL7 and other EDI stuff for instance).
Yeah. There’s always at least one mission critical Prel script that no one can read.
I made good money on EDI.
Like, 70% or more of the web runs on PHP. That’s also not going anywhere anytime soon.
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.
Oh I see what you’re saying.
Dang, maybe I should learn PHP…
I liked laravel. It’s very rails like.