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Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020

posted by martyb on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-do-YOU-think dept.

DannyB wrote in with a submission which became:

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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  • (Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:33PM (4 children)

    by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:33PM (#969898) Journal

    For all those funny languages may be good for the humans, but certainly not good enough for the machines.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @12:16AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @12:16AM (#969942)

    and at that time, COBOL will still be going in many banks ...

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:04AM (2 children)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:04AM (#970057) Journal

      About the year 9997, when the Y10K problem is right around the corner and everything must be updated to five digit years, there will be a big spike in demand for COBOL developers. Alas not Java most likely. The date/time objects we use will be updated but not our application code will need any updating.

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      • (Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:50PM (1 child)

        by nitehawk214 (1304) on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:50PM (#970314)

        We will still be busy converting java.util.Date to java.time.Instant.

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        • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:59PM

          by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:59PM (#970321) Journal

          Probably. :-)

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