On: Static types in Python

[junke]

Agree.

However:

    s/was/is/g
    s/could/can/g

Premature burial is a little bit scary, I take it you are doing this because Halloween is near.

[Roboprog → junke]

Languages never die. But companies stop making new projects with them - for some number of 9s percent of companies. E.g. - FOOGOLTRAN is a five-nine dead language, if 99.999% of new projects don't use it.

[Roboprog → Roboprog]

I guess as long as a language is used in at least 11% of projects, it can avoid being "one-nine" dead :-)

[sillysaurus3 → Roboprog]

I like this definition of language deadness. It seems especially useful when restricted to one decade.

[krylon → junke]

Thanks for the correction! ;-)