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		jnbiche on Jan 28, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Forth: The Hacker’s Language Ada is not fringe. It's used by many large companies, although less and less these for new projects these days. There are some huge Ada codebases being maintained in industry, particularly in the aviation industry.

qwertyuiop924 on Jan 28, 2017 | [–]

The same can be said of Lisp and Forth. Would you call them fringe?

pjmlp on Jan 28, 2017 | [–]

Actually, I might get the wrong picture but from FOSDEM talks and high integrity conferences programms, I get the opposite view.

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