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Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you stop using in 2017?

3 pointsby msencenbover 8 years ago
To complement this question (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13310159), I would like to know what old programming languages you plan to stop using in 2017. Why have you decided to stop using it?

2 comments

MikeTVover 8 years ago
<i>Hopefully</i> will be able to drop ColdFusion and Flash. Have a legacy site using those that I&#x27;m working to replace. Too many security concerns with both (surely made worse by the spaghetti mess the code&#x27;s in), and Flash is very publicly being voted off the island [0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.chromium.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;12&#x2F;roll-out-plan-for-html5-by-default.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.chromium.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;12&#x2F;roll-out-plan-for-html5-by...</a>
Binoover 8 years ago
Perl, I know I said it last year, and the year before that, but this time I mean it...