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Sure is lucky that the title of the post explicitly says "mostly dead" and includes a big disclaimer about how not all of them are dead, then!

• JadeNB 4y ago
  Also, as was obscured by the title mangler, the "dead" in the title is just a side remark; the title without the parenthesis is "10 most influential programming languages", and "(ly dead)" after "most" is just a parenthesis.
  • dang 4y ago
    Maybe we'll just revert to the linkbaity title in this case. I had it briefly as "Mostly-dead, influential programming languages (2020)" but that probably did more harm than good. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: that didn't work. I'm just going to take the whole 'dead' thing out.
    • runlevel1 4y ago
      Just curious: How do you determine whether the title change worked? Do you try it out and then check back later to see whether commenters are still getting hung up on the topic?
      • dang 4y ago
        Yes, but less reliably than that.
  • Mountain_Skies 4y ago
    Think the author saw a way to sneak in a 'Princess Bride' reference and took it.
  • ameliaquining 4y ago
    Well, it's not a claim that these are the ten most influential programming languages. Lisp was clearly more influential than most of these, but it didn't make the list because it's still alive. I think the title was mostly just a pun/riff on the title of the other post linked in the first paragraph, which did claim to be a list of the most influential languages, and doesn't really make sense if read as a specific concrete claim.