I loved the answer "Keeping older programmers rich ;)", to which someone wrote "You write that as if it were a bad thing!"
What are Fortran and Cobol used for today?
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Re: What are Fortran and Cobol used for today?
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
(nota bene: I supplied the accepted answer) This isn't a discussion-type topic. It's a question that has a non-subjective answer that doesn't depend on one's opinion. That being said, it might be migrated to programmers.SE and now that the question made it to HN the mods might notice it and actually do so, but I hope they won't.
> protected by Pascal Cuoq 2 hours ago
Protection is ok. Whenever a question gathers that much publicity there are many who are not aware of how the site works and try commenting by answering the question with a comment. Which is unwanted on SO/SE. It doesn't prevent people from commenting, it doesn't take the question away, it doesn't prevent established users from giving a better answer, so I feel that's not as drastic as migration or deletion.