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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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It's raisins that make Post Raisin Bran so raisiny ...
(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:07AM (9 children)
Or regexes that make you look like a ninja wizard when you can glance at one and tell noobs that it does something in 50 characters that took them 750 to write out as proper code.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:09AM (8 children)
You can love RegExs and use them frequently, without using Perl. I personally know.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:37AM (1 child)
and end up writing Perl. It is how it happened to me.
(Score: 3, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:45AM
The fun bit is, write some text wrangling in Perl what's regex-heavy then try doing the same in Python. It's quite painful, even laying aside all the other parts of Python that someone deserves throat punched for. Folks who know what they're talking about may not want to prefer Perl for text wrangling but they do prefer it.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:39AM (5 children)
That's all fine and good but we were talking origin stories and the P in PCRE don't stand for Python.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @01:05PM (1 child)
If you're going to get persnickety about origins, perl didn't invent regular expressions either. It took its inspiration from the existing unix tools such as sed and awk.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 13 2020, @11:47AM
True, they just gathered together the most widely used standard for them to which most other languages subscribe.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:02PM (2 children)
I think the real P in PCRE deserves full credit for its contributions to field of computer science.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:27PM (1 child)
I think you need to expand on what those contributions are.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 13 2020, @11:56AM
For starters, when it was the go-to language for so many things, it absolutely separated the wheat from the chaff in regards to programmers. It was dead easy to spot dipshit noobs who you needed to either teach or fire before they fucked things up.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.