What programming language do you wish would quietly retire? [closed]

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Published on 2008-10-22T08:26:49Z Indexed on 2010/04/19 12:23 UTC
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This is the inverse of the "What programming language do you wish would catch on?" question.

I was a Delphi programmer for many years, and I still appreciate its power, but I dislike verbose programming languages. So I would love to see Pascal put out to pasture.

The same goes for BASIC in any form, despite the fact that it's the language I cut my teeth on. When I look at cathedrals of beauty like Haskell and REBOL, BASIC just makes me cringe. (VB.NET is tolerable, but barely. It has a few nice language features I'd like to see moved to C#.)

My dislike of Pascal and VB.NET is subjective. They are powerful languages, but I dislike their syntax esthetically.

Try to explain your reasoning, if you can, even if it's just "I don't like its syntax."

This question is not meant to be a flame war, argumentative, or hateful. It's meant to be a straightforward, honest discussion of programmers' dislikes.

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