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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 arslan on Thursday March 12 2020, @01:49AM (5 children)

    by arslan (3462) on Thursday March 12 2020, @01:49AM (#969998)

    You can write Javascript now instead of VBA for Excel, but yea not as pervasive yet, but I imagine the next gen that grows up with the internet and more familiar with JS will likely make it happen. Excel aint going anywhere unfortunately.

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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:28AM (3 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:28AM (#970025) Homepage

    VB is here to stay in industry because of all the legacy code and unwillingness of middle managers to waste pennies from their bonuses.

    And that's not even counting the insane number of VBA macros in important documents. Even new and expensive toys like rate tables with 4 decimal points of a degree accuracy use certain dialects of VB.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:50AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:50AM (#970108)

      Units problem?
      > rate tables with 4 decimal points of a degree accuracy
      Wouldn't that be:
        rate tables with 4 decimal points of a degree/second accuracy

      Years ago I wanted to run a check cal (not precision) on a small rate gyro, used a high quality turntable, 33 rpm (198 deg/sec) was right in the middle of the rate range I needed. Record a couple of revs, then lift the gyro off the turntable before the wire wound up too much.

    • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:54PM

      by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:54PM (#970318) Journal

      And if they use VBA I doubt their accuracy. This is unfair, because it's based on Access Basic of a couple of decades ago, but that stupid language would occasionally give different answers for the same input, and I haven't trusted a Microsoft Basic since then.

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      Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @08:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @08:27AM (#970153)

    omfg lul what?