Can’t wait for the lisp revival of the 20’s

It seems to have begun with Clojure (though I like LFE).

Can't wait either. I hope my new book contributes to it.

Heck, PERL? Pretty sure CPAN was the first of its type.

I was thinking the same thing, and was praying I wouldn’t see Perl on that list. It happens to be my favorite language, probably because it’s the first one I used professionally. I don’t feel like it’s a dead language but it probably could be considered dying, especially with the recent surge in popularity of Python. I think one of the things that made Perl fall in popularity was its half-baked approach to OOP in an era where everyone was doing it, not to mention the copious syntactical sugar that made it possible to write the ugliest code you’d ever seen (there even used to be obfuscated code contests).

Perl 4 was a beautiful language that I loved to use. The release of Perl 5 was when Perl and I parted ways.

No, see CTAN.

Ah, true.

Banks and insurance companies and IBM mainframe emulation will ensure Cobol will outlast Java.

FORTRAN? LISP? Self?

Self should've been mentioned if not for slots and template-like object creation system (now well-known because of JavaScript), but for just-in-time compilation (JIT(, which opened a whole different world for Java and JavaScript later.

Lisp isn't dead though. I thought the same thing about Forth.