We recently asked our writers this question: what’s your favorite “dead” language? Some of the responses were not at all what we were expecting. For starters, perhaps we should have specified that we were asking about programming languages.
“Latin.” —Chris Short
“Middle English. Pre-Chaucer, really (which feels a little modern). Something like Malory’s ‘Le Morte D’Arthur’ is about right.” —Mike Bursell