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How do you propose “retiring” programming languages? People still write code in Fortran and COBOL. No oversight body exists to approve or retire languages. Either they get traction and eventually grow a lot of code to maintain, or they don’t.

If you ask rhetorically — king for a day kind of question — I would retire Python, because it enables too much slow, buggy, amateurish code.

It is more of a metaphorical question

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