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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: 4, Informative) by epitaxial on Thursday March 12 2020, @06:38PM (1 child)

    by epitaxial (3165) on Thursday March 12 2020, @06:38PM (#970336)

    Why would it be scary? Does the age of the language have something to do with its usefulness? The fact that nothing better has replaced it in a half century should speak for itself.

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday March 12 2020, @07:41PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday March 12 2020, @07:41PM (#970351)

    What's scary is that it is approaching "dead language" status. Thankfully, it's relatively simple and the basics can be learned quickly, but the larger structures and practices used are becoming a lost art. And, yet, millions of dollars per day flow through its pipes, like the Detroit water system in 2001 poisoning us in ways we are not yet aware of.

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