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Yep, PHP is turning 30 this year! Wondering if “PHP is still relevant?” Ever since we have been hearing that PHP is dead. It was “dead” 10 years ago, 5 years ago, and “is dead” today. But somehow - it isn’t. Anyway… happy birthday!

  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    1 day ago

    There really isn’t a language that has completely disappeared.

    How about that shit where a “program” was a bunch of patch cables plugged into various sockets? That shit is gone, man.

    • lad@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      18 hours ago

      Just for the sake of being contrary, I know that there are still machines running on punch cards in some army-related places, where not changing anything is mandatory. I wouldn’t be surprised if hot-wiring is also still there somewhere, it’s just mostly running without changes.

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        17 hours ago

        The original Moog synthesizers used patch cords (in fact that’s why a synthesizer instrument sound is still called a “patch”) and I’m sure somebody somewhere is still fucking around with one of those.