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Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020.
Each language gets a paragraph's treatment as to why he thinks these languages are dead or dying. Those languages are:
- Visual Basic
- Objective-C
- Perl
- COBOL
- CoffeeScript
- Scala
- Lisp
Do you agree with his assessment? Are there any other language(s) you would add to the list?
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(Score: 2) by legont on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:44AM (1 child)
While I totally agree with you, this attitude is long gone from the minds of the managers. Besides, it's too complicated for the brave new world.
The motto of Perl is TRMTOWTDI (There Is More Than One Way To Do It). That's what Larry wrote on my copy of The Book. Goggle switched to Python which is TIEOWTDI (There Is Exactly One Way To Do It), but even that is too complicated for Google engineers. They require a dumbed down Go.
For the better or worse, the world has changed.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:49AM
That's why they're middle management and will never be anything better. You do not get the brass ring if you don't take the risk and reach for it. Caution's fine but fear causes mediocrity.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.