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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 EETech1 on Saturday March 14 2020, @12:46AM

    by EETech1 (957) on Saturday March 14 2020, @12:46AM (#970950)

    I'm making more in one day than I made in a week being salaried. I was even non-exempt, so I made overtime.

    I'm making enough for 4 weeks paid vacation for every week I work.

    If it takes me a month or two to find more work, I'll consider it vacation, and just roll with it.

    I'm at the point where I have to turn down business. I have two machines that customers want, I just can't commit the hours right now. I sell them cheap, but without a fixed delivery date, so I have work to do in between my work. I'm not ready to take on employees, so they get whatever time I have left over.

    I can still get a couple free lunches a week from vendors, so I'm good lol

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