Somehow I wonder... almost all Languages which have been
established as stable and useful Languages (C, C++, Perl)
are considered "ZOMG THEY ARE DEAD!!!!!1111". I wonder whether thats just because there is more of a hype around languages like Haskell, Ocaml, Ruby, Java or Python.
IMO a language is not dead while there are still programmers
that use it. Smalltalk, for example, still has
a small but active community, and as long as there is
such a community, the language won't just "die".
All this "this language dies" and "that language dies" sounds like big marketing foo and zealots fearing that their
"favorite" tool is going not to be "cool" anymore. Languages, like natural languages, are changing IMO, and if one language is not up to the job, there will be another one. Currently there is no alternative to Perl (5), and there won't be one for the next 5-7 years. And it will be still around in 20 years.
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