[dang]

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

Edit: that didn't work. I'm just going to take the whole 'dead' thing out.

[runlevel1]

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]

Yes, but less reliably than that.