5 Programming Languages Doomed to Extinction

DICE ^ | Nick Kowalski

[The MAGA-Deplorian]

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[CatOwner]

... especially if they opt for cloud-based solutions over on-premises ...

Our security is permanently doomed once this becomes the norm.

[Repeal The 17th]

The first One I learned was Fortran IV

[Robert A Cook PE]

Oh man! They’re gonna keep FORTRAN. WAT IV?

[Repeal The 17th]

I’m not 100% sure, but I think JimRob wrote FR software with PERL.

[mrsmith]

“If you’re a COBOL programmer, chances are good you can land a job at a major institution that’s maintained a COBOL codebase since before you were born.”

Learned COBOL and some mathematical programming language in the early Seventies.
COBOL reminds me of Medieval architecture...

[Still Thinking]

FORTRAN 77 here

[Still Thinking]

I Enjoy Data Processing!

(I actually don’t, at least not the COBOL way, but at least it works as an mnemonic for COBOL program sections)

[P.O.E.]

I learned C+, COBOL, Assembler, Fortran-77.

Where is the the tech analog to the Rosetta Stone?

Not everything has been converted.

[JoSixChip]

Verilog! I made a good living with that.

[kennedy]

I learned programming in college using Basic and Fortran. I also learned using punch cards. Yes, I am old. I probably can’t get any programming jobs.

[Nailbiter]

flr

[Steely Tom]

Pascal, Forth, APL. I don’t hear much about LISP anymore, or Smalltalk.

[ConservativeMind]

I have coded in the last four while my wife uses R, the first.

Perl works very well and it's easy to learn. COBOL is easy, too, but I preferred PL/1, which was very much like Pascal.

R and Perl will be staying around a while. COBOL was supposed to be out the door years ago, but it's still plugging away since Y2K gave it attention.

Objective-C seems the most likely to ease out the door. It was made for the NeXT computer, which is where I worked with it.

This article brings back good memories.

[mrsmith]

FORTRAN!
That was the mathematic programming language I learned back then.

Afterwards briefly had a period of creating games- but abandoned it since it was silly...

[dfwgator]

I wish PERL would go away, but it never does.

[kennedy]

FORTRAN 77 here

Newbie. FORTRAN 66 here, using punch cards.

[ro_dreaming]

I see PERL on there... what about any sort of batch files? Hell, even in my Windows machines I script things in BASIC, put them in a CRON job, and let it run.

[ConservativeMind]

I programmed in Forth. In fact, as a teen, I bought a Forth environment for $150 with money from walking beans.

I never met anyone who’d coded in APL, but I read several articles in Byte Magazine around it and was very intrigued.