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It is not everyday that you see Digg - Out of service page, so I thought I’d share it with you guys.

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I saw this interesting article Ghosts in the Machine: 12 Coding Languages That Never Took Off on softwaredeveloper.com via digg programming and thought you might also find it interesting.

The programming languages that many people have not heard of are:

1. ALGOL 68: ALGOrithmic Language 1968
2. brainfuck
3. Befunge
4. REBOL: Relative Expression Based Object Language
5. ColdFusion (I think this is going to get people discussing.)
6. Java2k
7. INTERCAL
8. VRML: Virtual Reality Modeling Language
9. SMIL: Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
10. Haskell
11. Delphi
12. PowerBuilder

Read the full article to discover the background of those programming languages and why they don’t take off.

Side notes:

There are literally over 8,500 programming languages in existence..

Who would have thought? 8,500 is such a huge number.

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Are you building a form where you have a drop down list of countries for users to choose from? If you are, you might find the following snippet handy.

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5 July 2007 — A consortium of PHP developers has announced today that several leading Open Source PHP projects will be dropping support for older versions of PHP in upcoming releases of their software as of February 5, 2008 as part of a joint effort to move the PHP developer community fully onto PHP version 5.

Most PHP based web applications today run in both PHP version 4 and PHP version 5. PHP 4 was released in 2000, and quickly cemented itself as one of the dominant web development languages. Version 5 was released in 2004 with dramatic improvements in functionality, but adoption has been slow due mostly to the “chicken and egg” problem that accompanies many new platform releases.

By pre-announcing plans to require PHP 5.2 in upcoming software versions in 2008, GoPHP5 hopes to provide web hosts with the incentive to upgrade their servers to newer, more stable, more feature rich versions of PHP as well as sufficient time to do so. Users that are already using current versions of participating projects won’t be left out in the cold, either. All involved projects will continue to support current releases on PHP 4 for their normal life cycle, giving both users and hosts time to plan and implement an upgrade.

PHP is a widely used general purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development. PHP is one of the leading web development languages in the world, running on a third of the world’s web servers. It is the platform of choice for companies from Yahoo to Facebook as well as the most widely available development platform on shared hosting, which powers millions of web sites world wide.

Full press release can be found at the official GoPHP5 website.

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