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Possibly. It was basically the native language of Unisys A-series mainframes and I guess those are still around in some form or other.


Ah makes sense - I believe the Algol system I mentioned in another comment was running on a Unisys mainframe.


Ocean currents + cost-effectiveness, according to Ian Morris.

By his telling, Chinese bureaucrats buried the knowledge of large fleets because it was a more expensive way to project power than simply going over land.


Huh, self-aware HN. Don't see that very often.


7-day-old comment, but the company I work for (not a startup) flat-out bans creating a dependency on AGPL code.


The existence of Gnu COBOL:


Furthermore, vim turned out to have a built-in COBOL syntax highlighting mode which was activated when I opened the source first!


4. I'm an old. I will almost certainly try scaling my display by 125% or 150%.


Threw me down this rabbit hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog

Looks like Flix is in a galaxy of languages implementing Datalog, a variant of (or somehow related to) Prolog. I guess Flix is Turing-complete while Datalog is not?


> I guess Flix is Turing-complete while Datalog is not?

Flix is a regular programming language, and supports datalog as a DSL basically, supported by the compiler and type system.


https://dev.fitbit.com/build/reference/web-api/heartrate-var...

I used the swagger interface a few months ago to download my resting heart rate over a three-year period, and it was interesting.


Waddya mean, your kids? I learned that as a teenager myself in the 1930s, after an article in Scientific American.


Maang? Mmang? Define, please?


FAANG became MAANG when "F"acebook changed to "M"eta. The 2nd M in MMANG is probably Microsoft.


They will always be Facebook to me.


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