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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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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:43AM (5 children)
There is a high demand for Python. Mostly because people who don't understand programming, think they understand Python.
(Score: 2) by legont on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:46AM (2 children)
Yep, that's what's being pushed because supposedly it's what the new generation likes. I doubt it though.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @09:29AM (1 child)
I have close to 30 years of professional experience, a bit more than half of that using mainly Python. I love it. I'm fortunate to be able to use it for most of my work, with the remaining being done in C, C++, TypeScript (all of those I like), JavaScript (meh), and Java (which I don't like).
I hate Perl. I despise it with a passion. I had to use it in two of my projects, and despite an honest attempt to grok it, all I could see was a patchwork of a language that incentivize bad practices. You can find well-written Perl code, but 99% of what you find is a steaming pile of crap, and that's the language's fault. PHP suffers from the same problem, but it is not as bad.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 15 2020, @06:08AM
You could say that about most languages
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:24PM (1 child)
Python is an excellent language for the correct problem space...which doesn't include fast. In some areas it's significantly better than C or C++. I do think Python3 is better than Python2, but it sure depends on your use case, as for many Python2 is better.
They do need to work on their interface to C and C++, but I don't expect that to happen. People who become devoted enough to a language to start developing it don't seem to see the need to link it to "the competition". Cython is promising, but it's not well documented, i.e. if you have a Python program that you want to speed up, Pypy is much more straightforward.
FWIW, I started off in FORTRAN, and one point C was my major language, and another point C++ was (though before the STL). I've also programmed in Java and a variety of other languages. So I feel entitled to think your denigration of Python is totally unjustified. It's got it's limits, but so does every language in practice, if not in theory.
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 Saturday March 14 2020, @02:20PM
It's faster than PowerShell but not as extensible or flexible in the Windows Server space.