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SQL is one of the few technologies that I first learned ~1999 at the very start of my career which is still useful to me on a daily basis today.

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I try to only use 20+ year old tech and it's done me good...

Currently SQL (SQLite), Perl, PHP, Bash, text files, csv (psv), HTML, JS, CSS.

XSLT will blow your mind

literally. it was my first real exposure to functional programming.

One of my duties at work is maintaining a ColdFusion website. Apparently CF was a valid choice for a server side language 20+ years ago (the age of the web site). Who knew?

Everyone who used ColdFusion? I mean, why do you think ColdFusion was created?

Even Python 2.0 is over 20+ years old!

I avoid Python because of it's track record with breaking changes. Almost every time I try to run something Python, I run into version incompatibility issues, which is not the experience I want others to have with my project.

The vast majority of breaking changes should have been down to the Python 2 to Python 3 upgrade - since then I've seen very few breaking changes affect my projects.

The trick I use to protect against them is to run my test suite against multiple Python versions using GitHub Actions, e.g. here: https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/blob/main/.github/wor...

I prefer to just write in Perl and without third-party modules, which is backwards compatible to 5.000 (1994)

Regex pays dividends

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