5 Programming languages marked for death

[Kent Sharkey]

Dice[^]:

As developers embrace new programming languages, older languages can go one of two ways: stay in use, despite fading popularity, or die out completely. We predict the following languages will likely die.

"The fear of death is worse than death."

[Mike Hankey]

Oh no Visual Basic is set for the chop block, there will be a lot of unhappy campers and then there will be those like me that will say what took so long? Don't let the door...

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[Michael Gazonda]

No big deal, my language isn't on the list :-\

[enhzflep]

JEFF COGSWELL (Dice.com author) wrote:

I personally saw a Flash developer tell off a room of JavaScript developers for destroying his career.

:laugh: Too funny. Thanks for the laugh Kent. :thumbsup:

[Nemanja Trifunovic]

IMHO, they are wrong. Perl will outlive the Universe.

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