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having read the article I agree with only one point that the author makes: once Perl is removed from the default installs, it will lose one of its advantages, b
by glofish 7y ago
having read the article I agree with only one point that the author makes: once Perl is removed from the default installs, it will lose one of its advantages, being there and working by default. People will likely shy away from installing an additional programming language.
The other topics there have been rehashed many times before and are little more than extrapolations and exaggerations - how could a language ever go extinct ... if anything COBOL demonstrates that languages do not go extinct.
- msla 7y ago> The other topics there have been rehashed many times before and are little more than extrapolations and exaggerations - how could a language ever go extinct ... COMIT, TRAC, JOSS, FOCAL, and a few dozen assembly languages all would wave, but they're a bit dead at the moment.
- user5994461 7y agoWikipedia has a list of major programming languages by generation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_programming_languages#First_programming_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_programming_languag...