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A lot of this is incredibly myopic. The author seems to think that because a tool isn't useful to him that it isn't used at all. Also, there's the repeated notion that some currently-popular new toy has "won" and forever displaced everything before it. Nothing really works that way.

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Yep... "tech of the week has won", until next week, when "tech of that week has won", and most of the stuff declared 'dead' will still be working and in use pretty much everywhere.

C dead? XML dead? GUIs dead? Regex dead? .... yeah... no.

Cobol, so dead. Perl, dead. Remember when PHP was dead? And there were two things on the front page today about PHP ;). No death, only zombies.

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