[SeekAndFind]

For IT people and Techies

[DManA]

No mention of MSFT .net?

[dfwgator]

Java - The New COBOL.

[dfwgator]

#4 is getting to be very important, knowledge of JQuery is becoming a must.

[justlurking]

I don't consider XML to be a programming language.

It's a representation of data.

[ShadowAce]

[Borges]

Seems like C sharp and ASP.NET should be higher.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Just being able to sling some code together in this language or that language - at least from where I sit - is not going to get you that dream job. More typically you have to have some additional expertise in some specific subject area - be that embedded systems, web design, computer graphics - the list can go on and on. Just because you can write a while loop or a for loop in .Net (if such a thing is even possible lol) is probably not going to be enough in and of itself.

[MortMan]

Just what I thought - no need for being able to write comprehensive, cohesive, and attainable REQUIREMENTS! ;-P

[Mr. Jeeves]

IMHO, the need-to-knows are MySQL, HTML, JavaScript/XML/AJAX, both Python and PHP, and...Photoshop - and you can't really skip a working knowledge of all of them to be a viable "technology guy" going forward.

I don't feel like expending a lot of effort to become good at 2005-era corporate-style Java or C# is the way for a young developer to go right now. There is a big change looming ahead, and companies will be forced to stop paying big money for big, complicated, in-house projects. They are going to start demanding quick, cheap wins and that means web technologies, Open Source, the LAMP stack, and project teams of disposable programmers and temporary analysts.

[Political Junkie Too]

Does this mean that I can finally get rid of my JES3 JCL books?

//SYSIN DD DUMMY

-PJ

[thackney]

Where does Fortan77 fall on the list?

[Lancey Howard]

The last computer language class I took was PL1. Before that it was FORTRAN.

[PaulZe]

Wow that is good news for me, this 63 year old who’s retirement plan is to die at my desk as I study for my next Microsoft certification in Querying 2012 SQL Server databases

[jiggyboy]

“Programming”, bah. It’s all just COBOL with pictures these days.

[Errant]

bfl

[dfwgator]

Knowing Java isn’t just knowing about the language (ditto with PERL), it’s knowing all of the packages out there. You have to know about things like Apache Commons or Spring, so you don’t wind up reinventing the wheel.

[not2be4gotten.com]

Foxpro is the worlds best programming language.

[erod]

I mastered and practiced HTML on FreeR true story, lol, now I use it at my job.

[gura]

All held together by a bunch of #!/bin/bash

[NonValueAdded]

What, no FORTRAN?