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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, @06:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @06:11PM (#970326)

    I tend to try to use whichever one I have in my toolbox that best fits the use case

    The thing is, the tool that best fits the use case is more often than not the tool you understand the best. So language A is better for case X than language B really just comes down to "I know how to do this in language A, but I don't know how to do this in language B"
    At an academic level an expert in the field may be able to recommend one language over another. But in the real world, it rarely if ever matters.