If ColdFusion is old then what about these...

I suspect that most ColdFusion developers have heard the "ColdFusion is old" line. Well according to Wikipedia (which never lies!) ColdFusion first appeared in 1995. So if those people consider ColdFusion to be a old language then I assume they think the same of these languages as well....

Going even further back in time you'll find:

I guess any language born before 1990 must be ancient, which includes:

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7 comments

1. CF 1.0 was before php 1.0
   Here's a nice graph: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_development#Timeline
   
   Comment by jules – January 10, 2012
2. Nice chart Jules, thanks for the link.
   
   I may be reading it wrong, but it looks like PHP 1.0 came out just before ColdFusion 1.0 in 1995 (there is a little dotted line linking the marker and the "PHP 1.0" label). It was PHP 2.0 that came out in 1996.
   
   Not sure what happened to ColdFusion 2 on that chart!
   
   Comment by John Whish – January 10, 2012
3. Ah, you're right.
   
   According to this page, CF 2.0 was released in 1996.
   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldfusion#Release_history
   
   Comment by jules – January 10, 2012
4. Don't forget...Perl: 1987. (shudder)
   
   And it's still out there.
   
   Comment by David L – January 10, 2012
5. ColdFusion is a mature language. Sounds much better than "old". :-) The conotation of old, at least in most western societies, is something that's past it; a has-been. If a programming language continues to evolve then we should think of it as maturing which is not quite the same as being old.
   
   I have a big birthday next year so I'm kind of sensitive about using the word "old". ;-)
   
   Comment by Gary Fenton – January 10, 2012
6. Nice to see it in comparison to other languages :) It does seem like other developers think it's a lot older than it is. Maybe we should scrap any language that's older than 10 years, I vote we move to LOLCODE. Apparently it's only just 5 years old :P
   
   Comment by David Boyer – January 11, 2012
7. @David L, I think Perl deserves a bit of credit as pretty much the first form of scripting on the internet. I also noticed that the last version was only released a few months ago. With respect, maybe if want people to respect our language (whatever it may be) we should respect theirs :)
   
   @Gary, I take your point, I was paraphrasing the kind of ill-inform comments I've heard. Oh and don't worry, hitting 30 isn't so bad!
   
   @David B, I had a look at LOLCODE and think it's the future KTHXBYE!
   
   Comment by John Whish – January 11, 2012