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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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Could I have a drug overdose?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Arik on Thursday March 12 2020, @01:37AM (10 children)
"There is no one language "to rule them all"."
Yes. Yes there is. It's binary*.
Anything else you do has to be machine-translated, in one way or another, into binary. Therefore that is the veritable one language to rule them all.
*It's generally easier to think of it as hex, but they map 1:1 unless you're on exotic hardware.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:09AM
Wrong! Specs are no less important than machine code implementing them, and their native tongue is not binary.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @07:32AM (2 children)
I'm so old, I remember why most of the RFCs specify data transfer in octets instead of bytes or another unit because they were different sizes on different machines. And "nybble" has a "y" in it, heretics!
(Score: 2) by turgid on Thursday March 12 2020, @10:18AM (1 child)
EBCDIC.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 13 2020, @06:31AM
That comment divides all Soylentils into two categories. 1) Those who think you are old because they know what that comment is referencing. 2) Those who think you are old because you had a stroke when writing that comment.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday March 12 2020, @08:31AM (4 children)
Binary is not a language. Maybe you are thinking of machine language? But then, there is not one machine language; the x86 machine language is different from the ARM machine language, for example. So still no language to rule them all, just a family of languages.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday March 12 2020, @09:18AM (3 children)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by quietus on Thursday March 12 2020, @10:32AM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by Arik on Friday March 13 2020, @08:58PM
It's 1 or it's 0, or at most the third option is there's an error and we backup and try again.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday March 12 2020, @12:56PM
Binary is more the phonemes of computer control - and it doesn't cover analog, or trinary, or other systems.
That's not even close to what I would call true... 6502/6809 are somewhat related, but they're pretty far from 8088, which itself bears almost no practical resemblance to modern Core iX machine code. The only thing they all have in common is some degree of simplicity / closeness to the hardware, a lack of abstraction.
This is also true of human spoken / written language, the difference being: we don't understand how wetware machine language works.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @01:41PM
"Binary" isn't a language.