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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @01:44PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @01:44PM (#970209)

    NO, Lisp and other functional programming languages are markedly different from the "most of us" procedural languages.

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:42PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:42PM (#970311) Journal

    The "most of us" procedural languages have adopted more and more of Lisp in the last 30 years.

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