I hear this sort of question over and over, where X might be one or more “older” languages (old is usually considered eight or more years old) and Y is a “brand new” language, that might still be young enough …
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Happy 72nd Birthday, ENIAC!
Today, we (okay, maybe just ubernerds like me) celebrate the 72nd anniversary of the formal dedication of ENIAC (Electronic Numeric Integrator and Computer), one of the earliest electronic programmable general-purpose computers. Dubbed the “Giant Brain” in newspaper articles, it cost roughly $487,000 …
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