12 Coding Languages That Never Took Off

I wonder if lisp should be included. If delphi and haskell are on the list, then it seems fair game to rank by relative rather than absolute comparisons (instead of absolute small numbers, rank by the gap between what is and what could/should have been). I might also include smalltalk on this list as well.

Oh well - with the web, nothing has to be past tense. Just don't call it a comeback!

LOL @ Willarson's comment

Reading about ColdFusion stirs up feelings of nostalgia for me. I remember being a young teen interested in web application development and somehow I got my hands on the Allaire ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit published by Forta and Que. None the less, that was a short lived experience (fortunately) and I had quickly moved on to perl.

The idea behind this post could be done in an interesting way. It could have looked at real languages and examined why they--despite some promise--didn't succeed. Unfortunately thats not what the article did.

Instead it asks us to feign confusion why bitfuck didn't become a mainstream language. Maybe because it was a bitfucking joke from the start?

Heresy! I loved PowerBuilder and I won't have some dude saying it's dead, even if I haven't seen it in 8+ years.

Most successful programming language ever? Whitespace:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language)

In fact, we're all programming in it right now, though we'd be getting some compilation errors.

Maybe brainfuck could be useful for code obfuscation? Just write a small brainfuck interpreter (should be easy, as it only has 8 commands), then compile your code to brainfuck.

The 2d language looks like a nice playground for artificial intelligence experiments (genetic algorithms).

Is it too late for you to change the news.yc title to "12 Coding Languages That Waned"? It's ridiculous to say that PowerBuilder and ColdFusion never took off.