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@vwbusguy@mastodon.online
I've heard it argued that Python is "modern COBOL"... ๐
@TerryHancock I'm guessing whoever said that has never actually programmed in COBOL. The only correlation I can think of is they were both designed to be human friendly to read/write, but the implementation of that concept is extremely different between the two.
Cucumber/Gherkin would be modern COBOL, IMO.
https://cucumber.io/docs/gherkin/reference
@vwbusguy@mastodon.online
I think they were talking more about its social role -- a "good enough" language trundling along while trends come and go, used mostly by institutions who aren't primarily about software development.
Not the design of the language itself.
@TerryHancock You also just described php, perl, rust, javascript, Java, and a whole range of others with that. There are some things where python isn't frankly just "good enough" and plenty of software focused shops use it. Ansible, Jupyter, AI, Instagram - it's a massive list.