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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 JoeMerchant on Wednesday March 11 2020, @11:21PM (2 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday March 11 2020, @11:21PM (#969921)

    Sorry, but Objective C was not developed by and not a property of Apple.

    Nothing to be sorry about - neither did Apple develop nor own the Linux stack that OS-X was based on. The only application I ever found for Objective-C in the "Real World" was to play in Apple's walled garden, even if the soil was Linux and the flora coded in Objective-C, it was clearly Apple's space - and like any language, it's the API of the libraries that you're learning more than the language. In 2006 it didn't take much business acumen to choose Qt/C++ over Carbon/Cocoa/Objective-C as the place to put our development efforts, and that's a decision I've never regretted - even if it did piss off one petulant little fanboi that I worked for, I certainly didn't want to hitch my wagon to his train.

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  • (Score: 5, Touché) by Thexalon on Wednesday March 11 2020, @11:42PM (1 child)

    by Thexalon (636) on Wednesday March 11 2020, @11:42PM (#969927)

    Nothing to be sorry about - neither did Apple develop nor own the Linux stack that OS-X was based on.

    I think you misspelled "BSD".

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