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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 bzipitidoo on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:06AM

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:06AM (#970060) Journal

    TFA is about dying languages, not already dead ones. Otherwise, the list should be a lot, lot longer: Pascal, Modula, Modula-2, Modula-3, PL/1, almost every domain specific 4th generation language from the 1980s such as Informix 4GL, BASIC (the real BASIC with line numbers, not that VB stuff that was just trying to piggyback off the name), Rexx, and a bunch from the 1960s, including ALGOL and, I suppose, APL.

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