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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: 2) by HiThere on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:45PM (2 children)

    by HiThere (866) on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:45PM (#970284) Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday March 12 2020, @10:04PM (1 child)

    by Bot (3902) on Thursday March 12 2020, @10:04PM (#970410) Journal

    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

      by HiThere (866) on Friday March 13 2020, @03:52PM (#970737) Journal

      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.

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