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I’m the wrong person to ask. My goto language is older than I am and hasn’t had a meaningful change since I was born.
cobol? fortran? c? assembly? so many options
C.
I exaggerate a bit. C99 lets you declare variables anywhere inside the block, not just the top.
Which still got me into an argument with a coworker who wanted me to declare every variable at the top of the block “in case” we port the code to a compiler that doesn’t support it.
C99 was 20 years old at that point.
Newer versions of C have generics “support” but I haven’t seen it in the wild yet.
I wonder what the last programming language will be...
COBOL.
probably
Fortran has a 2018 release. Assembly is tied to the cpu, so I assume it changes every iteration.
I just consider it's origin to be ancient...
That's irrelevant is it's updated frequently.
Not completely, there are some designs choices that are to stay in old languages but would not exist in younger ones