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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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If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by HiThere on Wednesday March 11 2020, @11:07PM
Lisp had a lot of potential, but it had the problem that until (I think it was) Steel Bank Common Lisp was released a compiler cost around $1500. By the time cheap compilers were around, other languages had built libraries and user groups.
That said, it had/has a few problems with variable access, etc. and a truly ugly naming convention. So even if the field were level it would be at a disadvantage. (Look into the way Lisp handles the names of variable within objects if you want a read stomach twister.)
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.