Also, as was obscured by the title mangler, the "dead" in the title is just a side remark; the title without the parenthesis is "10 most influential programming languages", and "(ly dead)" after "most" is just a parenthesis.
Maybe we'll just revert to the linkbaity title in this case. I had it briefly as "Mostly-dead, influential programming languages (2020)" but that probably did more harm than good.
Well, it's not a claim that these are the ten most influential programming languages. Lisp was clearly more influential than most of these, but it didn't make the list because it's still alive.
I think the title was mostly just a pun/riff on the title of the other post linked in the first paragraph, which did claim to be a list of the most influential languages, and doesn't really make sense if read as a specific concrete claim.
JadeNB|3 years ago
dang|3 years ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: that didn't work. I'm just going to take the whole 'dead' thing out.
ameliaquining|3 years ago
I think the title was mostly just a pun/riff on the title of the other post linked in the first paragraph, which did claim to be a list of the most influential languages, and doesn't really make sense if read as a specific concrete claim.
Mountain_Skies|3 years ago