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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 hendrikboom on Saturday March 14 2020, @02:14PM (1 child)

    by hendrikboom (1125) on Saturday March 14 2020, @02:14PM (#971199) Homepage Journal

    Wasn't it a 72-character limit instead of 77? The remaining 8 characters set aside for line numbers so you could mechanically sort the deck into order after dropping it downstairs be accident?

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday March 14 2020, @04:47PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Saturday March 14 2020, @04:47PM (#971231)

    That sounds familiar, though our CRT based systems may have gotten a 5 character bonus since there was no longer the danger of accidental shuffling.

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