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Goodbye, World? 5 Languages That Might Not Be Long For This World

Posted by timothy on from the glib-claims-are-easy-to-make dept.

Nerval's Lobster writes As developers embrace new programming languages, older languages can go one of two ways: stay in use, despite fading popularity, or die out completely. So which programming languages are slated for history's dustbin of dead tech? Perl is an excellent candidate, especially considering how work on Perl6, framed as a complete revamp of the language, began work in 2000 and is still inching along in development. Ruby, Visual Basic.NET, and Object Pascal also top this list, despite their onetime popularity. Whether the result of development snafus or the industry simply veering in a direction that makes a particular language increasingly obsolete, time comes for all platforms at one point or another. Which programming languages do you think will do the way of the dinosaurs in coming years? With COBOL still around, it's hard to take too seriously the claim that Perl or Ruby is about to die. A prediction market for this kind of thing might yield a far different list.

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  1. Flash by rujasu · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Also on the list: Adobe Flash. Please let them be correct about this. No more Flash. Anywhere. Ever.

  2. Re:If you wanted us to believe your Op-Ed... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The article is obviously garbage, but if it were just a list of languages that are known-shitholes then Java should have been number one on that list. And I'm not referring to the JVM; plenty of fine languages run on top of it and it is obviously highly performant these days. I'm referring to the total shit language, Java, that is the defacto standard running on top of the JVM.

    Unfortunately that's not going anywhere in the near future. Not everything is a fucking noun and no thanks I don't need training wheels anymore.