Can someone please give me a list of defunct languages and a separate list of the most popular. google usually turns up dry. Try to set good memories and the golden days of computing aside and give me a realistic, current, answer. :-)

I have some idea myself, but correct me if i am wrong:

no longer used:

B
Basic
pascal

rarely used (outside of math calculations):

fortran
tcl/tk
matlab
C#
vB
assembly

most used:

C
C++
D
pythonP
PERL
javascript
php

and many more...

thanks.

i find tcl used quite a lot... tho there are alternative apps for some of its programs

c# and vb and basic seems to be used most of all on windows,

does javascripts even count (as its web, might as well add html, dhtml, css .....)

i never here D mentioned at all (ah wait, i think i do remember reading a article about some new admin program for sun's OS (solaris is it?), that was supposed to be very powerful and easy to use, that was written in D, but thats all i heard of that language)

scheme ill put on rarely used

java is used a lot (mainly web related stuff, .. like games)

thats all i think i remember ... unless you want languages not for the x86 architecture

yeah x86 is what i am basing the question on, but comments with other architectures are welcome. Also, I guess throw out javascript, activex, and all the client side web crap. I was wondering what does C# have that C or C++ doesnt? Also, has anyone heard of co-array fortran? Is it supposed to be the newest and most powerful language basically a put-together of fortran and C.

Could someone also clear up diff in visual basic, basic, vB(if not visual basic), and vBscript?

There are very few languages which are actually completely out of use. You'd be surprised how many ancient COBOL applications are still being used in business, for example.

Alex

There's that quote along the lines of:
"It's scary to think that most mainframes are still running fortran"

Most popular?

In the linux world I'd say:
C
C++
Perl
Python
Java

As a previous poster said, I don't think anything is truly defunct.

hm i recently used a cross compiler (basic to assembly) in a class at school working with a motorala microcontroller......

we still use a cobol app(billing,inventory,service order entry, etc), with gui bolted on. never thought it was cobol until it barfed one day and i saw the error messages scroll by.

name_in_use450: C# is just some language M$ made up, i think its supposed to be a combo of like, c, vb, and maybe something else. .. but I'm not sure .,.... its also supposed to be "easier" to use