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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:02AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:02AM (#970009)

    LISP's last hurrah was the 1980s.
    Aside from a brief spurt of LISP interest due to the Java implementation known as Clojure, it has been basically dead ever since.

  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:10AM (1 child)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:10AM (#970015) Homepage Journal

    Tell that to all the folks still using emacs.

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @07:14AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @07:14AM (#970139)

      You tell him.

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

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:12AM (#970066) Journal

    Sad but true.

    While Emacs users may use lisp, that is mostly to scratch their own itch. Not for commercially distributed software.

    I have great fondness for Lisps.

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    People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.