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
Posted on 01/31/2013 6:50:58 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Yep. That's where the job market is.
There are maintenance jobs for COBOL slingers. The old mainframers are dying off or retiring.
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.
What?
No respect for ALGOL?
What about keypunch operators?
Spanish!
If you had an IQ higher than your d!ck is long you could understand them. /h
COBOL forever!!!!
Assembly language?
List of programming languages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages
I lost my dos 3.1 disk with the interpreter.
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.
Why isn’t FORTRAN on that list?
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.
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.
Keep him stocked with 5 hr energy.
Hahah! That’s hardcore!
When the alternative was C++ you could make some money cranking out VB 6 apps of good quality .
Nobody worth their salt knows only 1 language.
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.
I have never met a COBOL programer that could not find a job.
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.
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
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