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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: 3, Insightful) by melikamp on Wednesday March 11 2020, @11:22PM (1 child)

    by melikamp (1886) on Wednesday March 11 2020, @11:22PM (#969922) Journal
    LISP really should not be in this list. It is indeed a family. Some dialects have fallen by the wayside, granted, but Scheme is beautiful, useful, and being used all over the place.
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  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:28PM

    by TheRaven (270) on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:28PM (#970254) Journal
    How is Scheme doing relative to Lua and JavaScript? The latter two seem to be in most of the places where I'd have seen Scheme a decade ago. VS Code seems to be the new EMACS, just with TypeScript instead of Scheme...
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