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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:13AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:13AM (#970020)

    According to my friend who gets the mid six figures coding COBOL in the financial industry, their LoCs are going up.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 14 2020, @06:23AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 14 2020, @06:23AM (#971063)

    COBOL code that is 30+ years old still needs to be maintained. No one has a solution.

    Mid 6 figures? so $400,000? High end contractor rates. Possible, and likely to happen.
    They still employ permanent staff for $70K to $120K for permanent jobs maintaining COBOL systems in Australia.

    Have a trawl through https://www.apsjobs.gov.au [apsjobs.gov.au] if you are interested.

    Find the dept and teams and contact them directly. Services Australia, ATO and several other depts still have COBOL systems. Also check the banks. Commbank and StGeorge and Westpac and ANZ specifically.

    They also need systems support people for these ancient systems. Mainframe ops, etc etc.