Posted on 01/31/2013 6:50:58 PM PST by SeekAndFind
An interesting article caught my eye at jobstractor.com — the programming language trends review. The company analyzed more than 60,000 job vacancies during 2012 to produce a chart of the most sought-after technologies:
| Language | Jobs |
|---|---|
| PHP | 12,664 |
| Java | 12,558 |
| Objective C | 8,925 |
| SQL | 5,165 |
| Android (Java) | 4,981 |
| Ruby | 3,859 |
| JavaScript | 3,742 |
| C# | 3,549 |
| C++ | 1,908 |
| ActionScript | 1,821 |
| Python | 1,649 |
| C | 1,087 |
| ASP.NET | 818 |
Despite developer complaints, demand for PHP and Java (server/Android) remains strong. You would also expect those jobs to require some SQL knowledge although that has a strong showing in its own right. ActionScript is a dying art so it’s rapidly falling off the chart.
(Excerpt) Read more at sitepoint.com ...
Would advocacy of Lisp as worthy programming language be advancing the homosexual agenda? :-)
That’s true. I probably should have made that point as well.
I would venture that the best language you could learn to get a job in the Obamanation for the rest of Barry Hussein’s term is to learn to say:” Do you want fries with that?” in Spanish.
You want tight code? Nothing beats programming directly in Machine Code. Hex rules, baby!
I learned on Assembler, Cobol and Fortran 77. On a keypunch machine (no screen!)
But I learned how to think, model, modularize, plan, flow, troubleshoot, deliver on time and train the user.
Assembly is fun, unlike most of those other languages.
Environment.division
data division
procedure division
geez those were the days.
p s dot net is huge rigjt now
I’m learning MVC3 right now. When I work with developers these days I’ve noticed that few are trained in structured coding. They seem to do little design and mostly just try to convert specs directly to code. It’s like we’ve unlearned what we learned about spaghetti code and its pitfalls back in the 1970’s.
I wrote in ALGOL once. Once. Never again.
Unix shell scripting reminds me of the old days of COBOL. Unreliable variables. Writing “if [ $A -eq 0 ] then” doesn’t ensure a proper response because whether $A is numeric or not depends on what you had for breakfast that day.
There are a lot of workarounds in *nix.
I had to learn Perl and PHP when a student programmer abandoned a critical system in a user department where he had no backup. I guess they never imagined he would graduate.
The market environment demand for ALGOR- is heating up.
Figure out how to make Java secure - will be set for life.
Java and its Android implementation.
My dad used to say that anything not coded in Assembler was not worth coding.
>>Java has become a security nightmare
The security problems are so minor in comparison to how Java is generally used (on the server). The problem is with Oracle’s runtime plug-in for web browser so that Java applets can run. How many applets do you run? I’m guessing zero.
Remove the java plug-in for your web browser and you’ll be fine.
We use the Java plug-in for our Enterprise system.
RE: Spanish!
Interesting, A Spanish programming language? Why not.
Imagine a while loop...
In English
While(x < y )
In Spanish
Mientrasque ( x < y )
RE: Spanish
How about an if-then-else statement in Spanish?
if (x < y)
then
x++;
else
x—;
In SPANISH
si (x <y)
pues
x++;
más
x—;
Modern day VB is totally worthless. Just a wordy version of C#. When VB .Net superseded VB6 I dropped it like a hot potato and used C#. There was zero value to it for me.
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