Which Programming Languages Are Dying? A Deep Dive into Perl, Haskell, Ruby, and More

The article surveys five programming languages—Perl, Haskell, Ruby, Visual Basic.NET, and Object Pascal—explaining why each is considered obsolete, illustrating their decline with historical context, code examples, and industry opinions, and questioning whether they are truly dead or merely fading.

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Which Programming Languages Are Dying? A Deep Dive into Perl, Haskell, Ruby, and More

21CTO

Mar 27, 2020 · Fundamentals

Which Programming Languages Are Facing Extinction? A Look at Perl, Ruby, VB.NET, Flash, and Object Pascal

The article predicts the demise of several once‑popular programming languages—Perl, Ruby, Visual Basic.NET, Adobe Flash/AIR, and Delphi’s Object Pascal—by examining their historical rise, current decline, and providing sample "Goodbye World" code snippets to illustrate their fading relevance.

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Which Programming Languages Are Facing Extinction? A Look at Perl, Ruby, VB.NET, Flash, and Object Pascal

Architecture Digest

Feb 22, 2020 · Fundamentals

Five Programming Languages Predicted to Die

The article forecasts that Perl, Ruby, Visual Basic.NET, Adobe Flash/AIR (ActionScript), and Delphi's Object Pascal are each facing extinction as developers shift toward newer, more supported programming languages, illustrating the decline with code examples and historical context.

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Five Programming Languages Predicted to Die