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For Techies Only: What is the Best Programming Language to Learn in 2013?
Site Point ^ | 01/25/2013 | By Craig Buckler

Posted on 01/31/2013 6:50:58 PM PST by SeekAndFind

An interesting article caught my eye at jobstractor.comthe 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

programming language vacancy statistics

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Society
KEYWORDS: computers; it; programming; software
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To: TheRhinelander
C#.NET by far (if you want a job).

Yep. That's where the job market is.

There are maintenance jobs for COBOL slingers. The old mainframers are dying off or retiring.

21 posted on 01/31/2013 7:14:03 PM PST by gitmo ( If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Objective c is crap. Java and C# will be around for.a.long time. They are very similar and you can cover both bases. If you think apple has peaked and beginning a long decline you won’t be off much. If you are smart enough the real money and cutting edge will be and.has been C++ which produces native code. Its the core of all the languages listed except objective c which is templatized c.


22 posted on 01/31/2013 7:14:12 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Scrambler Bob

What?

No respect for ALGOL?

What about keypunch operators?


23 posted on 01/31/2013 7:14:51 PM PST by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
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To: SeekAndFind

Spanish!


24 posted on 01/31/2013 7:16:10 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Gone rogue, gone Galt, gone international, gone independent. Gone.)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

If you had an IQ higher than your d!ck is long you could understand them. /h


25 posted on 01/31/2013 7:16:48 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

COBOL forever!!!!


26 posted on 01/31/2013 7:18:43 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: SeekAndFind

Assembly language?

List of programming languages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages


27 posted on 01/31/2013 7:19:00 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Jonty30

I lost my dos 3.1 disk with the interpreter.


28 posted on 01/31/2013 7:20:24 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: SeekAndFind

Actually, as always, it is the next C based write-only brain damaged monstrosity dated back to Kernighan and Ritchie whose main aim was not to be understood by their bossess at the time.


29 posted on 01/31/2013 7:20:36 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why isn’t FORTRAN on that list?


30 posted on 01/31/2013 7:21:29 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: gitmo

We still run COBOL on unix. Mostly we use PL/SQL.

But the real question is “How many languages do you know?”

I routinely write Unix shell scripts, SAS, SQR, PL/SQL, COBOL, C, VBScript, Office VB and Javascript. Java programmers are the most highly sought but Java has become a security nightmare.


31 posted on 01/31/2013 7:21:29 PM PST by AppyPappy (You never see a massacre at a gun show.)
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To: mvpel

Amen brother! When you believe this, the only answer to the question, “...which languages do you know...” is “All.” There is no need to play alphabet soup when you understand the fundamentals of problem solving using a computer. It’s not conceit, it’s confidence.


32 posted on 01/31/2013 7:22:41 PM PST by kdot
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To: Bon of Babble

Keep him stocked with 5 hr energy.


33 posted on 01/31/2013 7:22:41 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Scrambler Bob

Hahah! That’s hardcore!


34 posted on 01/31/2013 7:25:02 PM PST by kdot
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To: Voltage

When the alternative was C++ you could make some money cranking out VB 6 apps of good quality .


35 posted on 01/31/2013 7:26:18 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Woodman

Nobody worth their salt knows only 1 language.


36 posted on 01/31/2013 7:28:07 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Scrambler Bob

And a few GOTOs.


GOTO’s are for weenies. I’m all about the “alter goto”!

I had to convert some DYL260 programs to COBOL once. Dyl280 is easy, but the only way I was able to convert the DYL260 programs was to decipher parts of them that I could and complete the task by running the programs against small input data sets and compare the output. It actually worked pretty well.


37 posted on 01/31/2013 7:29:16 PM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I have never met a COBOL programer that could not find a job.


38 posted on 01/31/2013 7:29:21 PM PST by taxcontrol
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To: AppyPappy

Once you have a few good languages under your belt, picking up another is fairly simple.

I have the same list, minus Java but adding PowerShell scripting. Used to write Speed code. Have dabbled in PL/N and IBM assembler.


39 posted on 01/31/2013 7:30:11 PM PST by gitmo ( If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
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To: Scrambler Bob
FORTRAN will be around forever... at least in the scientific community

nothing fancy and not pretty, but in many cases, a few lines worth can still do whats needed to be done

40 posted on 01/31/2013 7:31:23 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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