The Top 10 Programming Languages (For Techies only)

Tech Impulsion ^ | Feb 2012 | Ajit Singh

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Evidently nobody uses databases anymore.

/s

[Delta Dawn]

I’ve outlived all my Girlfriends and Languages, how unfortunate........

It’s good to know that you understood at least one of those. :)

[Delta Dawn]

Craigslist is for Cartagena escorts looking to diversify.

[KosmicKitty]

What?? no LISP!!

[central_va]

C++ is wicked.

[central_va]

The Java would be on the server side so you will not see it.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Evidently nobody uses databases anymore.

Hmmm... wonder why SQL is not considered a programming language. Maybe they make a differentiation between programming and querying...

But whatever language one program’s in, Java, C# or whatever, it’s very hard to avoid interfacing with SQL.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: This is a silly thread.

We can’t be serious all the time. Why not have some fun once in a while?

[Cringing Negativism Network]

How about a top 10 silliest threads of all time thread?...

[LuvFreeRepublic]

Yes, Fortran and COBOL, but also add Pascal that was ‘tough’ way back when.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: If you know how to code, you’re going to pick up enough of any compiled or interpreted language to become productive in it pretty quickly.

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I can appreciate the sentiment. However, if a company is heavily using a language in its applications ( e.g. C# ), or tools like Visual Studio, no matter how good a programmer you are in another language ( e.g. PASCAL or ADA), they are not going to consider you at all.

They want somebody who can do the job NOW. There is no time for on the job learning at all.

One of our best software developers in C#, ASP.NET and SQL Server just left the company. I just received 5 resumes from Tech recruiting firms to replace him... all of them have the same experience and skillsets.

And get this -— ALL of them have INDIAN names. Go figure.

[reg45]

I went from FORTRAN to

BASIC to

COBOL to

BAL to

Turbo Pascal (and DR Pascal) to

C to

Visual BASIC to

C#.

[Carriage Hill]

All were a b*tch, weren’t they?

[jimfree]

Ada had been big for banking applications fairly recently. I don’t know about currently. Ada was designed to enforce strict programming discipline and promote reliability. That’s something you want in mission critical systems in DoD and certainly it’s welcome in the financial world.

[Larry Lucido]

is the bass of C++

Is that bass like the fish, or bass like the guitar?

[LuvFreeRepublic]

I don't remember what order, but I think it was COBOL, Basic, Fortran, Pascal, Assembly Language, then Basic Plus 2. The only one that gave me heart burn was Assembly Lang. Didn't stay programming for very long after I graduated college. I think it would have been interesting to dabble in some of the other languages.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

You’re pretty much locked into Subjective C for Mac development.

Any .Net developer would dual develop if MS ported Studio to the Mac.

[LuvFreeRepublic]

lol, I am not sure I would agree that they were a ‘b*tch’. My brain seemed well suited for programming. I am very logical and analytical so perhaps that gave me an edge. I will admit that Assembly Language was tough for me though. If I can recall, dealing with binary crap didn't come easy for me. Gosh that was all so long ago and now I have a heck of a time pretending to be smarter than my smart phone. This thread is bringing back some memories for me.

[CrouchingTiger620]

i love c# and vb but hate java......i’ll bet more business transactions run thru RPG and Cobol than all those other languages combined

[SeekAndFind]

RE: i love c# and vb but hate java.

Wonder why you would love C# and hate Java when both are quite similar in syntax...