Re: New Term: Zombie Language

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 5:02 AM, Laurie Alvey trukker41@gmail.com wrote:

I guess FORTRAN & PASCAL would qualify.

The only differentiation I might make is whether there are implementations still out in the world. Pascal and Fortran have more or less complete and free compilers available (see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_%28programming_language%29 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Pascal

for example) and so there are niche specialties that continue to use them for specialized applications.

Contrast those with zombie languages where you have to find 20-year-old floppy-disk or CD-based installers to install a proprietary IDE on a new machine. Those are walking dead.