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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) by pir on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:43AM (1 child)

    by pir (9719) on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:43AM (#970083)

    There will be perl code running somewhere long after all of us reading this are dead and gone. Probably not *my* perl code, but ya never know. Probably COBOL too. Scala is interesting, and will likely live on. Objective-C, will probably fade into obscurity, unless someone outside Apple keeps it alive. VB, who cares, though it will probably live on out of spite. I barely know what CoffeeScript is.

    However, forget all those, there will probably be lisp code (or some derivation thereof) still running somewhere even as the universe reaches heat death.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:44AM (#970104)

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