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Comment by pianopatrick

Wasn't there some idea that went like "if something has been around for x years, it will likely be around for x more years"?

Maybe follow that. It's 2026 right now. What way of writing code would have worked 50 years ago (1976) that still works today?

Well, C, SQL and Lisp were all around 50 years ago and still exist today.

In terms of hardware, 50 years ago there was intel 8080. apparently code for that can still work via emulation today.

So if you wrote C for low level, Lisp for high level, and compiled the software to run in an Intel 8080 emulator, that combo would likely still work in 50 years.

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