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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 The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 13 2020, @06:34PM (2 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday March 13 2020, @06:34PM (#970816) Homepage Journal

    If I weren't easy for me to find or create as much work as I want, I'd think up something else instead of worrying. I have too much of an engineer/coder's mindset; I think of solutions instead of worrying about what could happen. Except with actual code, strangely. Code is one thing I try to be pretty meticulous about.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday March 13 2020, @06:40PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 13 2020, @06:40PM (#970822) Journal

    I think any of us on the spectrum are detailed and meticulous.

    People pay good money for that.

    As long as you have enough social skills to be able to work with other people.

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    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 13 2020, @10:35PM

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday March 13 2020, @10:35PM (#970901) Homepage Journal

      Thankfully I never took work that required all that much in the way of social skills except when I had to hire a few folks. Ordinary old extracurricular social situations don't bug me at all and I can do professional well enough for contract work or something like SN but working with idiots who don't know they're idiots every day just ain't in my color wheel anymore.

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