What are some bad programming languages?

Question

What are some programming languages that might've been useful in the past but isn't particularly useful now? Why aren't they useful now?

Answer 1

Schindlabua neither JavaScript nor PHP is bad

Answer 2

Schindlabua yes 😀

Answer 3

I wouldn't say they are particularly bad, but not as useful as others.
Dart: Not many people are using it around Github and other places like it, Kotlin, Swift, etc. were all made around the same time and have outperformed it by far.
Coffeescript: Pretty much just a way to give yourself more work as there are newer versions of JS and newer languages that can help you.

Answer 4

Most things from the 70s or earlier like Pascal or Fortran or Cobol or APL or Ada or Smalltalk or PL/1 or Algol. Mostly because those languages had to be simple enough to run on simple hardware and also because programming was new and nobody knew how to design languages. Nobody uses them nowadays and we've moved on to modern languages (except for C, C is eternal).
PHP might be useful but it is pretty bad, and it's creator Rasmus Lerdorf himself says that he had no clue about programming languages and he just did "what worked", leading to bad design.
Javascript has some horrible parts aswell, as do C/C++ and Java and most other languages. Depends on what you mean by "bad".

Answer 5

Nomeh True, but they are messy. JS itself I believe was only created in two weeks?

Answer 6

Nomeh Uchenna Gabriel I agree, neither of these languages are bad, it is just user needs to choose language wisely as per needs.
C, FORTRAN, JS, PASCAL are still very useful. I have used FORTRAN recently it generated best results for my scientific calculations, where other languages were not so accurate and fast.

Answer 7

Archana M physics? :D

Answer 8

Archana M Yeah I have some physicist friends who use it, though I've never seen it outside of physics. I thought they were just being old-fashioned, but apparently the newest version of fortran came out in 2015. I stand corrected!
Pascal on the other hand, not so much. Only Delphi which is a derivative.
And Javascript, I'm not saying it's not useful (it powers the entire web!), but it has it's bad parts. `[9,10,11].sort()` returns `[10,11,9]` because the sorting function turns everything to strings, oof. Brendan Eich though weak typing is a good idea and now we're stuck with it for eternity :/

Answer 9

as long as a language has an application, it is a good language

Answer 10

There are some pretty nasty languages which are sound theoretically, like Shakespeare, LOLCODE, Brainf*ck, and whitespace.
All which can work but not nearly as good as something like Pascal or C

Answer 11

Nothing LOL all is a worth one Language.