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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, Funny) by DutchUncle on Thursday March 12 2020, @01:10PM (1 child)

    by DutchUncle (5370) on Thursday March 12 2020, @01:10PM (#970204)

    You can do that in Snobol too. And it makes more sense.

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  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:39PM

    by HiThere (866) on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:39PM (#970279) Journal

    I haven't seen or used Snobol in 50 years! They might have invented the term "spaghetti code" for Snobol, and you literally CAN'T program any other way. The last time I used it, it was thought of as SLOW!!! but flexible, and aimed at language processing. I guess "language" includes computer languages.

    OTOH, I never used it that much. At that time my main language was FORTRAN IV with occasional dips into assembler. Arrays were all fixed length. And branches without line numbers hadn't hit the compilers. (Some UNIX people were using a preprocessor that accepted structured programs and output FORTRAN, but that FORTRAN was nearly unreadable.)

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