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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.

1 posted on 04/13/2008 12:12:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

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


2 posted on 04/13/2008 12:15:35 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand ( If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you...)
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3 posted on 04/13/2008 12:19:09 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: SeekAndFind

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).


5 posted on 04/13/2008 12:39:09 PM PDT by RockyMtnMan
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To: SeekAndFind

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


6 posted on 04/13/2008 12:41:02 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (Not a newbie, I just wanted a new screen name.)
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To: SeekAndFind; ShadowAce
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)
8 posted on 04/13/2008 12:47:09 PM PDT by AdmSmith
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To: SeekAndFind

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. :)


12 posted on 04/13/2008 12:52:17 PM PDT by papasmurf (Unless I post a link to resource, what I post is opinion, rergardless of how I spin it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


19 posted on 04/13/2008 1:11:41 PM PDT by dfwgator (11+7+15=3 Heismans)
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To: SeekAndFind

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


23 posted on 04/13/2008 1:28:57 PM PDT by ex-snook ("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
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To: SeekAndFind

APL
PL1
Fortran
Pascal
Cobol
GWBasic

I guess I’m a little out of date.


26 posted on 04/13/2008 1:33:17 PM PDT by Poser (Willing to fight for oil)
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To: SeekAndFind

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


27 posted on 04/13/2008 1:34:15 PM PDT by LongTimeMILurker
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


28 posted on 04/13/2008 1:35:08 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Secondhand Aztlan Smoke causes drug addiction obesity in global warming cancer immigrant terrorists.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Certainly not Cobol and ANSI-C :) ...

Cobol again gets the ax for the 25th year in a row
34 posted on 04/13/2008 3:16:46 PM PDT by stylin19a
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To: callisto

Your kind of party?


35 posted on 04/13/2008 3:20:19 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: SeekAndFind
I dig GWBASIC.

10 LPRINT "hello"
20 GOTO 10

lol
36 posted on 04/13/2008 3:22:27 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


48 posted on 04/16/2008 7:21:01 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: callisto

Welcome back, Callisto!


49 posted on 07/31/2008 5:59:59 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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