Top 10 Outdated Programming Languages to Forget in 2022

Programming languages that take the coding world by storm are introduced only once in a few years. Meanwhile, quite many coding languages developed on the lines of these languages find their way into a programmer's tech stack for a short term and then disappear. At times mainstream programming languages have to face a similar fate when equally competent programming languages, with better features, are released into the market. Here are the top 10 outdated programming languages which are worth forgetting.

1.VB.NET:  

Visual Basic.NET, a language created by Microsoft has a syntax similar to BASIC and a coding style similar to that of C#. With developers actively adopting modern languages like .NET and C#, it might see itself shelved very soon.

2. Elm:

It has been developed as a domain-specific language for declaratively creating web browser-based graphical user interfaces. It is considered a dying language as it has been dormant for the past two years with no significant update.

3. Coffee Script:

Though known for its prettier looks and efficient destructuring, it is quite notorious for the ambiguity it adds to the programming. Coffee Script lacks the function of explicit scoping and real functions, a primary reason for its decline in the popularity charts.

4. Haskell:

A culmination of not-so-popular languages like Miranda and Clean, it has been the language firms and projects like Facebook and Github resorted to. Of late it is giving up to RedMonk despite having major updates in recent years.

5. Erlang:

A general-purpose language, adopted largely by telecommunication systems, has performed not so well in the job market. Though it had a constant presence last year, its community engagement was not so good.

6. PASCAL:

A direct descendant of ALGOL 60, has once ruled as an imperative and procedural programming language. Now that Delphi has taken that role, PASCAL language is being pushed to the corner.

7. COBOL60 :

COBOL was basically created for business applications, it had to give in to more comfortable static typing of Java or dynamic typing of Python. Because of its strong typing rules, and difficulty in parsing, companies are opting for other languages.

8. Cold Fusion:

It was launched by Adobe with several advanced features for web and mobile application development. In addition, it comes with different versions developers and enterprises can use according to their needs. But due to poor quality of debugging and lack of package manager, it is gradually losing its popularity.

9. Objective-C

Once a popular language for developing Apple's applications, it is quickly being replaced by Swift. More developers are choosing Swift over er Objective-C, for Swift is feature-rich. However, it has not crashed to as low as one might expect, thanks to its legacy code.

10. Perl :

It is the collective name given to the bunch of high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, and dynamic programming languages. Though its main drawback lies in draining the CPU's capacity, it is being rendered redundant as programmers are being drawn to other modern languages.