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

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, Insightful) by noelhenson on Wednesday March 11 2020, @11:23PM (2 children)

    by noelhenson (6184) on Wednesday March 11 2020, @11:23PM (#969923)

    I still love Forth though I have not programmed in it in maybe 8 years or so. It is truly astounding how much code one pack into a small space with it and have it execute at amazing speeds.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:31AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:31AM (#970097)

    Pretty much by definition, as you basically build up the language to solve any task.
    Also, two stacks do clash with present programming model which constantly uses callbacks from C/C++ based libraries (naturally using one stack).

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:45PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:45PM (#970233)

      Forth is basically the byte code language of a particular stack oriented virtual machine.
      It's way too low level for software of any complexity. Thus, its main use which was in embedded systems doing control loops and hardware control.