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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   
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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Original Submission

• You can write garbage in any language You can write garbage in any language (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:42AM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:42AM (#970102)

  No syntax can make clear what a muddled brain produced.

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• Re:You can write garbage in any language (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @07:18AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @07:18AM (#970140)

  Somehow you touche'd yourself. Do you like toucheing yourself?

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• Re:You can write garbage in any language (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Friday March 13 2020, @12:42AM

  by Snotnose (1623) on Friday March 13 2020, @12:42AM (#970485)

  Yeah, that's not what we're talking about. We're talking 4-5 experienced software engineers who know the basics and now need to write large scripts. You divvy up the job, buy everyone a Camel book, and huddle down in your cube. A month later everyone's code works well, but nobody can figure out anyone else's code.

  You try looking up ~, |, [, or , on google and see how far that gets you.

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  When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.

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