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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: 5, Insightful) by Beryllium Sphere (r) on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:57AM (2 children)

    by Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:57AM (#970087)

    If a language forces you to learn a new way of thinking (e.g. Prolog) then it is worth studying.

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  • (Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:38PM (1 child)

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:38PM (#970307)

    Unless that way of thinking is stupid.

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    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:40PM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:40PM (#970310) Journal

      Don't you have to study it to conclude it is stupid?

      Prolog and systems like it (minikanren) have useful applications. Just maybe not for everyday general purpose programming.

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      If you think a fertilized egg is a child but an immigrant child is not, please don't pretend your concerns are religious