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Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages
- emit_time 6y agoCan’t wait for the lisp revival of the 20’s
- JohnL4 6y agoFORTRAN? LISP? Self?
- transfire 6y agoLisp isn't dead though. I thought the same thing about Forth.
- tandr 6y agoSelf should've been mentioned if not for slots and template-like object creation system (now well-known because of JavaScript), but for just-in-time compilation (JIT(, which opened a whole different world for Java and JavaScript later.
- JohnL4 6y agoHeck, PERL? Pretty sure CPAN was the first of its type.
- temporallobe 6y agoI was thinking the same thing, and was praying I wouldn’t see Perl on that list. It happens to be my favorite language, probably because it’s the first one I used professionally. I don’t feel like it’s a dead language but it probably could be considered dying, especially with the recent surge in popularity of Python. I think one of the things that made Perl fall in popularity was its half-baked approach to OOP in an era where everyone was doing it, not to mention the copious syntactical sugar that made it possible to write the ugliest code you’d ever seen (there even used to be obfuscated code contests).
- ChristianGeek 6y agoPerl 4 was a beautiful language that I loved to use. The release of Perl 5 was when Perl and I parted ways.
- gnufx 6y agoNo, see CTAN.
- JohnL4 6y agoAh, true.
- zibarn 6y agoCobol mostly dead? ...yeah
- tibbydudeza 6y agoBanks and insurance companies and IBM mainframe emulation will ensure Cobol will outlast Java.