Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:09:49 -0000 (UTC), root wrote:

I call ... junk languages: ... programs written in these are unstable.
Some modification in these can cause a perfectly functional program to
stop working because of some change that was not backward compatible.
 
I ran into this problem way back in the 70's when I was running Fortran
programs on CDC machines. One day my Fortran programs would no longer
compile because CDC had updated their compiler. I had no recourse other
than tracking down every "error" and programming around that. Do that
with a program that ran to 20 boxes of cards.

If Fortran can be a “junk language” by your definition, then so can any
language.