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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: 2) by Bot on Thursday March 12 2020, @09:11AM (3 children)
Indeed if you are interested about programming, a book on a lisp dialect will save you time in the end. The syntax is easy to grasp (but it is not easy on the eye), and you don't have to study the bulk of common lisp, since elisp picolisp clojure and scheme are available.
For beginners, Pharo (smalltalk, think about it as java done right, almost three decades earlier) has a free online OO programming course with a dedicated environment. I have not tried the course but the environment is nice, it would be a killer production environment if they integrated db functionality in the same way they did with git (some projects float around about external db of object, not tried them though, it would be a killer to have picolisp style cross-image db functionality in smalltalk)
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:45PM (2 children)
Pharo doesn't handle concurrency well, and the last time I looked it handled Unicode via an external library. Not necessarily a problem, but quite possibly a source of incompatibilities. I was really looking at it's multi-processor capability, and when that turned up absent I stopped looking.
Smalltalk is one of those languages I've looked at repeatedly, and always decided it wasn't the right tool for the job. I'm not really sure what job it *is* the right tool for, but it looks so interesting it seems that there *MUST* be one. Some folks at MIT seem to agree, because their language "Scratch" is built in Squeak Smalltalk.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday March 12 2020, @10:04PM (1 child)
Probably smalltalk won't die until the last gemstone db is up. A pity they didn't open source it when java bet on open source. We'd be having a different business software landscape by now I think.
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday March 13 2020, @03:52PM
IIUC there's a real problem with getting the underlying software engine to handle multiprocessors, so it may be a really basic design decision analogous to Python's GIL, but worse.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.