Quartex Pascal releases a new compiler with Delphi-compatible generics, full RTTI, binary records for low-level memory access, near-doubled compilation speed, and self-hosting capability, demonstrated by porting the Reticulum network protocol from C to Object Pascal.
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.
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.
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.
