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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 bussdriver on Friday March 13 2020, @06:46AM
Objective-C needed a team evolving it over time like C++ and others. COBAL doesn't look like it did MANY decades ago even it evolved a bit. Objective-C should be more like C++ with changes to fit today's needs. Even if some breakage happens. A read a history book on the development of C++ and didn't agree with many design choices that seemed to be where Objective-C went the other direction.
Swift I don't know other than I heard it was an evolution of Objective-C with a bunch of syntax games that were not likely needed. It seemed to me from a glance they were trying to get some kind of hybrid between compiled and scripted languages. A worthy goal to attempt as we do so much more in scripting languages today; it sure would be nice if scripting could compile into something much faster while still being easy to develop quickly. I won't look into Swift until it's more free from Apple's grip.
Objective-C, I dabbled in and loved it but the lack of backers outside of Apple discouraged me from investing more effort. Had I known 20 years ago about GNUstep I might have gone into it much more.