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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: 2) by bzipitidoo on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:23AM
Lists and discussions of this sort are somewhat a giant red herring. One of the things that made Perl was the intrinsic regular expression capabilities. Once Perl showed the world how useful that could be, it wasn't long before other languages incorporated it. C/C++ has the PCRE library.
I'm guessing that one of the things that will really distinguish programming languages of the future is the ease with which they can be expanded. Easy addition of useful features would make moot much of the debate over which languages are best. C/C++ is clunky, needing the "namespace" extension of the language to handle the proliferation of library functions. And, all those C libraries lack critical information needed to link. I have read that Perl 6 gets around this problem by having the capability to parse C header files, so that it can figure out how to call the functions. Perl 5 can't do that, and must lean on this huge library of wrapper code, CPAN. Java is in a world of its own.