[SeekAndFind]

I personally think that C and C++ are losing ground. Languages without automatic garbage collection are getting out of fashion. The chances of running into all kinds of memory problems is gradually outweighing the performance penalty you have to pay for garbage collection.

PERL has probably seen better days too ( Python is slowly becoming more popular as a scripting language ). PERL used to be the standard for every sys admin and build manager, but everyone has been waiting for a major release since 2000. That's taking too long and its time might have passed.

[the invisib1e hand]

the first list is in ascending order of “future importance?”

[ShadowAce]

[RockyMtnMan]

Ajax is not a language it stands for Asynchronous Javascript over XML. So technically they are saying Javascript. However there is a server side component to AJAX which could be a variety of other languages (Java, Python, PHP, etc).

[Dr. Sivana]

Uh oh . . .

What about?

1. RealBASIC
2. FOCAL
3. FORTRAN-77
4. PAL
5. SNOBOL
6. Forth
7. Logo(Coleco Z-80 version)
8. ALgol
9. Lisp
10. Postscript

[AdmSmith]

An extension of an “old” language is required for multithreaded parallel programming, maybe Z++ or Charm++ (yes I'm still fond of C++, but agree with you on the garbage collection)

[papasmurf]

Odd. The company my wife works for is seeking sql/c++/VB programmers.

Very good privately owned and managed company, too. Atlanta if anyone’s interested. :)

[dfwgator]

Uhh, AJAX is not a language.

Some languages to look out for are the functional languages like, Erlang, Scala and F#. These languages can do for multi-threaded programming, what Java did for memory management. Concurrent programming in Java is a major pain in the you-know-what, and with multi-core processors, it’s going to become a major problem, as most Java developers only know enough about concurrency to be dangerous.

[ex-snook]

Same rule as always. The best language is the one you learned last.

[Poser]

APL
PL1
Fortran
Pascal
Cobol
GWBasic

I guess I’m a little out of date.

[LongTimeMILurker]

Being a BASIC and FORTRAN programmer in the past, I’m wondering if C# is good for musical programs?

[Lazamataz]

I’m banking on .NET in all it’s flavors, with any front end tool like Flash or Quicksilver, and T-SQL on the back end.

[stylin19a]

Certainly not Cobol and ANSI-C :) ...

Cobol again gets the ax for the 25th year in a row

[Grizzled Bear]

Your kind of party?

[mysterio]

I dig GWBASIC.

10 LPRINT "hello"
20 GOTO 10

lol

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I think languages are like tools - they each are good for certain tasks, either due to their innate properties as languages, or due to existence of libraries and legacy code that can be used, modified etc. You really can’t compare C to Perl or to Lisp etc. - they are all really good tools for certain tasks and terrible choices for others.

I use C every day of my life and although the latest web app is surely not going to be written in C, just as surely linux kernel code is not going to be written in Java.

[Grizzled Bear]

Welcome back, Callisto!