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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: 3, Interesting) by EETech1 on Thursday March 12 2020, @10:15AM (1 child)

    by EETech1 (957) on Thursday March 12 2020, @10:15AM (#970172)

    There's so many coronavirus related gigs with "need it yesterday" timelines that I'm getting paid my overtime rates for regular time, and 2x for overtime.

    I wasn't even being a greedy bastard, they offered it to me to get me to drop everything else I was doing.

    I even sweetened the deal and told them I'll do as much as I can from home for straight overtime, so they have a list of items to complete on site, a list of homework for me to do, and a desire to get me back home at a reasonable time.

    Independent contracting is the way to go if you have the skills to do whatever is needed, and the determination to get it done no matter what.

    Nobody is going to pay you $2 - $3 a minute to screw around, drink coffee, and miss deadlines, but they will gladly pay you $2 a minute to write software, or design machinery while you watch you kids play / sleep / etc...
    But ..
    If there's 10 things on my list for tomorrow, they expect all 10 things to be done tomorrow, no excuses, even if I have to help someone finish their work so I can finish mine.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 13 2020, @11:09AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday March 13 2020, @11:09AM (#970631) Homepage Journal

    On the nose. Which is why self-employment is ill suited to so many. They're spoiled to being able to make excuses and not having to take responsibility. You don't get to do either if you want to make it as an independent contractor. Not ever.

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    My rights don't end where your fear begins.