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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, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @06:55AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @06:55AM (#970132)

    I did a bit of Googling around to find who originally wrote the Write in C parody lyrics turned up several possibilities:

    * Google Look Inside has it on page 146 from MIT Press's 1995 book titled _Humor the Computer_, edited by Andrew Davidson, which page shows authorship as "Anonymous."

    * A 2002 online "songbook" attributes it to: Kriston J. Rehberg.

    * Kriston J. Rehberg's personal web site disclaims authorship attributes it to Jay Piecora:
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        "The "Write in C" Song

        "I am Not the Real Author

        "I have been incorrectly attributed as the author of a parody song called "Write in C." The real author is Jay Piecora, a fellow student at the State University of New York at Binghamton. With his permission I had posted the song to a humor mailing list circa 1989, but the list's author incorrectly attributed me as the author."
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      == SEE: https://kriston.net/vitals/write-in-c.shtml [kriston.net]

    * Another result says that the origin is earlier, 1987, and the actual author is Brian Marshall:
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    "Written in 1987 while I was attending the University of Waterloo. After I posted the original text on the wall of the Computer Science Club, the song was soon traveling around the Internet. The song has morphed a bit over the years, with new verses appearing, disappearing, and some lines changing. But that's the nature of filk, isn't it?" -- Brian Marshall
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      == SEE: http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/00259.html [poppyfields.net]

    Does anyone have better, older, better referenced sources for attribution?

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