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:
Do you agree with his assessment? Are there any other language(s) you would add to the list?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @12:16AM (3 children)
and at that time, COBOL will still be going in many banks ...
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:04AM (2 children)
About the year 9997, when the Y10K problem is right around the corner and everything must be updated to five digit years, there will be a big spike in demand for COBOL developers. Alas not Java most likely. The date/time objects we use will be updated but not our application code will need any updating.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:50PM (1 child)
We will still be busy converting java.util.Date to java.time.Instant.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:59PM
Probably. :-)
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.