ADA or Jovial, I’m guessing.

It’s a fucken goat!

I was part of a team that was trained in COBOL to help update code in time for Y2K. We’ve been headhunted by the same company several times in the last ten years to further update and maintain the same code, originally written in the mid-1970s. I’m now 56, and I suspect that code base will live at least as long as I do.

Do people still use Chrome ?

The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth

Memory isn’t infinite, CPUs can’t process all integers, and Santa isn’t real

Wait, what? Need a spoiler tag.

Ada

Since version 3, TeX has used an idiosyncratic version numbering system, where updates have been indicated by adding an extra digit at the end of the decimal, so that the version number asymptotically approaches π. This is a reflection of the fact that TeX is now very stable, and only minor updates are anticipated. The current version of TeX is 3.141592653

This has been my experience of agile in multiple workplaces.

If anything goes wrong with the deploy script, such as failing tests, no harm will be done because the script exits upon the first error encountered.

How do you clean up? Once the deploy script is fixed, how do you know what’s been done and what needs redoing?

Have you considered ansible/puppet/chef/salt — environments dedicated to deployment and cleanup, with idempotency to allow for fixing and repeating the deployment, across multiple operating systems and versions?

I saw that too and thought “here we go again”, but in this case it seems SCO stands for Source Code Origin.

https://github.com/k88hudson/git-flight-rules/blob/master/README.md

can anyone suggest some versions or mods of Windows, or an alternate method, that would let me run Py2EXE and InnoSetup?

https://reactos.org/

might work for you, and it might not. But do let us know if it does!

does anyone have a guide on installing macOS under KVM or QEMU?

https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM

sort of works some of the time. I personally didn’t find it satisfactory for my use case. It might be suitable for you.

Well, technically Dvorak is a US-ANSI layout, so … no.

Ada and COBOL are still where the big money is, and still will be for years to come.

Isn’t It Obvious That C Programmers Wrote Git

North Dakota

Python, Ruby

COBOL is pretty easy to learn and has lots of syntactic sugar to make programming easier. I’ve heard that it’s still in demand as big Enterprise is running out of first generation coders, but I don’t know how long that demand will last. Ada is another language that people joke about but is in demand in certain circles, particularly military.

I worked in several big companies, and the answer is “often”.

The database at the backend of the web page that allows customers to order widgets online is written and maintained by DBAs, with functional specifications and agile and program managers and Gantt charts and all that stuff.

The database used by the system administrators to keep track of servers and parts; or by managers to keep track of hours worked; or by the network engineers to keep track of wifi repeaters; those databases are written by someone who did an online course once, or by whoever on the team possessed insufficient reluctance when the idea came up in a meeting.

And when we see on the evening news that personal records of 7.5 million people have been stolen by hackers, it doesn’t matter which side of the line the programmers are on, the shit is evenly distributed all over IT, whether they were involved or not.