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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:50AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:50AM (#970108)

    Units problem?
    > rate tables with 4 decimal points of a degree accuracy
    Wouldn't that be:
      rate tables with 4 decimal points of a degree/second accuracy

    Years ago I wanted to run a check cal (not precision) on a small rate gyro, used a high quality turntable, 33 rpm (198 deg/sec) was right in the middle of the rate range I needed. Record a couple of revs, then lift the gyro off the turntable before the wire wound up too much.

  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:52AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:52AM (#970117) Homepage

    If you wanna spin slow then none of your shit matters.