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Article on Languages that never took off

Posted by: Venkat Subramaniam on July 13, 2007

Rich McIver emailed me a link to an article on 12 Coding Languages that Never Took Off.

In my opinion, the list does have some languages that never took of, but there are some that are significant
though may not have gotten real popular.

Certain languages have far reaching contribution even if they may not be the most popular language
or most popular currently. We are just beginning to appreciate Functional Programming. Soon when several
processors on a computer (and laptops) becomes a standard, ability to not just model, but implement concurrent
tasks effectively will become an important and pressing issue. We will soon be looking for languages (or at least
language constructs) that abstract it for us. I think it is an interesting time in the language space.
Venkat Subramaniam

About Venkat Subramaniam

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.

He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.

Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.

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