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Ilya Dudkin at Skywell Software has a story
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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The last time I saw him he was walking down Lover's Lane holding his own hand.
-- Fred Allen
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:14PM (5 children)
When I find my code in tons of trouble,
Friends and colleagues come to me,
Speaking words of wisdom:
"Write in C."
As the deadline fast approaches,
And bugs are all that I can see,
Somewhere, someone whispers:
"Write in C."
Write in C, Write in C,
Write in C, oh, Write in C.
LOGO's dead and buried,
Write in C.
I used to write a lot of FORTRAN,
For science it worked flawlessly.
Try using it for graphics!
Write in C.
If you've just spent nearly 30 hours
Debugging some assembly,
Soon you will be glad to
Write in C.
Write in C, Write in C,
Write in C, yeah, Write in C.
Only wimps use BASIC.
Write in C.
Write in C, Write in C,
Write in C, oh, Write in C.
Pascal won't quite cut it.
Write in C.
Write in C, Write in C,
Write in C, yeah, Write in C.
Don't even mention COBOL.
Write in C.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by legont on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:30PM
Yep, just substitute BASIC for Python and COBOL for Java to make it modern.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by corey on Thursday March 12 2020, @01:25AM
[quote]As the deadline fast approaches,
And bugs are all that I can see,
Somewhere, someone whispers:
"Write in C."[/quote]
Um, I'd say, Write in Ada. Debugging time is far less than C.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:53AM (1 child)
Why would you go anonymous on that gem? Been programming for 40+ years, that is not only the first time I've seen that but it's one of the best parodies I've ever seen.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @12:39PM
First, to answer your question: Same reason I go anonymous on everything else. I believe the concept of an anonymous forum where posts rise or fall based on their merit, not the poster's reputation, is one worth keeping around.
This concept naturally falls under attack by those who want to turn every disagreement into a personal grudge, and find their "enemies'" lack of identity frustrating. If only trolls and shitposters post AC, they will win, and we will lose this concept; quality posts as AC are my mode of counterattack.
Second, as another AC has noted, "Write In C" goes way back. Glad to be the one to introduce you to it, but I don't deserve the credit you seem to be implying.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @06:55AM
I did a bit of Googling around to find who originally wrote the Write in C parody lyrics turned up several possibilities:
* Google Look Inside has it on page 146 from MIT Press's 1995 book titled _Humor the Computer_, edited by Andrew Davidson, which page shows authorship as "Anonymous."
* A 2002 online "songbook" attributes it to: Kriston J. Rehberg.
* Kriston J. Rehberg's personal web site disclaims authorship attributes it to Jay Piecora:
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"The "Write in C" Song
"I am Not the Real Author
"I have been incorrectly attributed as the author of a parody song called "Write in C." The real author is Jay Piecora, a fellow student at the State University of New York at Binghamton. With his permission I had posted the song to a humor mailing list circa 1989, but the list's author incorrectly attributed me as the author."
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== SEE: https://kriston.net/vitals/write-in-c.shtml [kriston.net]
* Another result says that the origin is earlier, 1987, and the actual author is Brian Marshall:
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"Written in 1987 while I was attending the University of Waterloo. After I posted the original text on the wall of the Computer Science Club, the song was soon traveling around the Internet. The song has morphed a bit over the years, with new verses appearing, disappearing, and some lines changing. But that's the nature of filk, isn't it?" -- Brian Marshall
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== SEE: http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/00259.html [poppyfields.net]
Does anyone have better, older, better referenced sources for attribution?