Talk:Dead programming language

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I'm going to have to argue a few points here... Assembly and Lisp aren't in my opinion dead. They're just special. Assembly never really was a mainstream language in the first place, and Lisp wasn't either. People still learn both today, for whatever purpose. Assembly is very useful. It can be used anywhere. There's just a lot of undue criticism of the language due to not being familiar with the style of programming. Lisp is still a very useful language... I've heard that you aren't a programmer until you've programmed with lisp, or somesuch. Emacs uses it for scripting...--Snoolas 20:15, 2 Aug 2005 (EDT)

I removed most of the content. All these languages are still used in some contexts and some people swear by them (sometimes even for good reason). And if you're gonna claim lisp is dead, you're-a gonna piss me off anyway :P . But seriously, the only effect of having a page claiming certain languages are dead is to generate lots of flamewars. If no one objects I'll remove the whole page in a few days. --Marijn

I say we don't remove the whole page. It's fine as long as it doesn't list any languages. I'll fix it.--Snoolas 09:08, 3 Aug 2005 (EDT)

Yeah I kind of realized that after I made the page... But anyway I thought it would be okay to nominate used languages. However, I meant that people still use Lisp, just like people still use latin, aramaic but it is not dominant in the programming world. --Jt92

How can a programming language "die" when it isn't alive? :)

--Almar Joling 16:58, 3 Aug 2005 (EDT)

The same way a car can! Anyway, old languages never die, they just go onto smaller projects 81.79.15.82 03:57, 4 Aug 2005 (EDT)

It is simply a turn of phrase. --jt92

Methinks Almar was just joking around... --Snoolas 12:27, 4 Aug 2005 (EDT)