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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 black6host on Wednesday March 11 2020, @11:49PM (4 children)

    by black6host (3827) on Wednesday March 11 2020, @11:49PM (#969931) Journal

    I'm so glad Delphi isn't on that list! I hone my leet coding skills in it every day. Yeah, yeah, I know that train left the station a long time ago, lol.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:10AM (2 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:10AM (#970064) Journal

    Isn't Delphi really Pascal with objects, and nice development tools and GUI frameworks?

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    • (Score: 2) by black6host on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:24AM (1 child)

      by black6host (3827) on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:24AM (#970114) Journal

      Yes yes and yes. For business applications it ran circles around most of the contenders. You could even code inline assembly if you wanted, for speed sensitive things. The two things I liked the most, however, were that you could compile to an exe and move just that into your working directory once you came out of testing. No need to install on all the client computers; and the fact that you could just have one damned .ini file in the working directory and not make a ton of registry changes on each client machine. It made rolling out a new version very easy.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:56PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:56PM (#970237) Journal

        I almost got into Delphi. But it was not cross platform enough. So Java.

        But I look at Lazarus and related projects with a bit of nostalgia. Thinking if I had today's tools back then, it would have been this Delphi clone all the way.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by turgid on Thursday March 12 2020, @09:59AM

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 12 2020, @09:59AM (#970170) Journal

    Dad, I didn't realise you had an account here!