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		mst on Nov 29, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: API Half-lives So after 15 years, software should have gone away. Ok, then call me back when you've purged the world of C, lisp, Smalltalk and UNIX, and I'll give you a hand with perl :)

perigrin on Nov 30, 2011 [–]

You forgot Fortran, BASIC, SQL, x86 Assembler, HTML, HTTP, TCL, Python, Ruby ... 15 years ago was 1996, we've got a lot of crap to purge.

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