yup... and yet FORTRAN is still there despite it's predicted/declared demise low these many years...
Posted on 06/27/2015 7:57:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
"Software is eating the world," venture capitalist Marc Andreessen famously declared. Someone has to write that software. Why not you?
There are thousands of programming languages, but some are far more popular than others. When a company goes out to find new programming talent, they're looking for people familiar with the languages and systems they already use — and they don't always want to experiment with newcomers like Google Go or Apple Swift.
Here are the programming languages you should learn if you always want to have a job, as suggested by the popular TIOBE Index and Redmonk Programming Language Rankings.
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yup... and yet FORTRAN is still there despite it's predicted/declared demise low these many years...
I don’t think CSS is a language. More of a specification like XML. You can imbed code in it but on it’s own I don’t think so.
There are offshoots of CSS like LESS and SASS.
Don’t need LESSSASS?
No mention of JOVIAL either. ;-)
ALGOL was renamed ALGOR and went bankrupt.
I don’t think there are machines running RPG anymore.
I don’t think code from many of these languages wouldn’t be posted often on Github — who would post Mathematica, AppleScript, SQL, XML?
Surprised to see VB and FORTRAN so high on the list.
Various cloud platforms critical to success are missing, I guess because they aren’t languages. Heroku, New Relic, Cloud Bees, RightScale. Likewise, Big Data apps aren’t shown — Cloudera, TeraData.
JIVE?
Yup. COBOL and Fortran still out there.
All the hoopla about C_this and C_that turns out to be just that. Different way of cooking the goose, nothing more.
Billions of lines of code doing accounting, designing airframes, generating results.
The web languages are great at what they do. But not at ordinary computing, and not designed for that.
And they mutate all the time. And they go out of style, for silly reasons. No company is going to waste their time attempting to revamp critical codes every few years. Chaos would ensue.
I haven’t worked as a software engineer in 20 years.
I interesting to see where our industry has gone. I was in R&D for a defence company.
One of my projects was in C, another in Ojective C, and then there was a big push for Ada.
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I believe the difference they are speaking of is the ranking. In the article they state the name is the only thing in common.
You do if you are a Kardasian.
this is a chart of open source projects to online requests for assistance. the number of projects written under simple languages for throw away projects would be overly represented. older, more established languages used mainly on closed source projects would not be represented very well.
I don’t see LabVIEW mentioned here and it’s very popular with Data Acquisition systems. Although it’s a stretch to call it a language, more like connect the dots. National Instruments promote it heavily and sells the hardware to go along with it. I don’t see it going away anytime soon.
Ahem.
COBOL.
Nobody teaches it. Nobody wants to learn it. It's tired, old-fashioned, and "obsolete."
Yet it runs billions of lines of the world's most critical infrastructure and probably outranks all the rest of these languages put together.
Want to make millions and not be dependent on which way the IT winds blow? Learn COBOL. It's the Volvo of programming languages: not particularly glamorous but it'll get you where you're going.
Ada was big for DoD/USAF during the 80s and early 90s
ADA, the language of central planning, hasn’t improved its lot, I see.
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