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Re:Ask HN: Do Programming Languages Die? by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @12:05PM (#20575531)
> which languages have been truly popular historically and then died?

For some value of "dead": at least PL/I and ALGOL

For some value of "truly popular" as well as "dead": Modula-2, Forth, Prolog.

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