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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: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:41AM (1 child)
You can't go a week without somebody predicting perls doom. But there is no other language that will let you do the crazy shit perl will let you do. Not that you should do it. But you can.
The story behind perl hate is almost unversally this:
Boss ask tech to fix. Tech get tired of fixing, he slap a perl one liner on it. Boss notices tech no longer contemplating hari-kari. Boss tell tech to fix other. Tech extends perl. Five years later, one liner is company wide ERP system that saves million of shinys.
Boss tells tech to make big tittied naked women fall from the sky. Tech finally says: "Yeah, that needs a ground up rewrite with a proper development cycle". Boss wonder why tech no longer love him? Cry's quietly in a corner, then become angry. "Fucking tech! Do what I want!". Tech says: "No. It doesn't work that way." Boss fires tech. Boss's boss asks to fix something. Boss cannot. Boss no program. Boss is sad. Boss reads article that say: "Python so easy!". Boss read 5 lines of Python and think that programming. Boss hires tech, says "python gud!". Tech says, "Yeah, a whole team needed for that.". Boss pays ten times as much to do it in Python. Boss tell everyone: "perl is for assholes! See! Me did it in python!" Boss fires four out of five programmers, and locks the last one in a cage with bread and water to maintain code. Boss gets promotion and new company Wooly Mammoth.
If you like it dirty, perl. If you want it to scale, perl. If you want it efficient, perl. If you want the programmer to be an easily replacable commodity: python.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:21AM
With that being a rare commodity, bitchfest from those afflicted by sour grapes never ceases and never will.