Posted on 09/04/2013 12:51:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I been developing Windows PC based automated testing systems for 20 some years now. Currently using Visual Studio 2010 and C#. Don’t see any changes coming on the horizon. If only Windows was a Real-Time OS.
One problem with .Net is that it only runs on Windows Server, with all the expense and headaches that entails.
One of the major advantages for Java is running on Linux and Unix, which are taking more and more of the server pie.
Ever hear of Mono?
I’d been intrigued by Mono when it was first being developed, but then work basically swamped me for a few years.
We have a split of .Net and Java/Unix, though I am on the Java side it is always good to keep up with other technologies. Learning Ruby this year, might start playing with Dart, but I could also see myself putting Mono on one of my Linux boxes.
What no RPG on the list??
I've been writing in Bash and Perl for the past 5 weeks... While I love it, parsing custom log files without any real standards can really wear you out!
Come on, give a dinosaur a break!
Actually, a friend is still gainfully employed doing FORTRAN programming.
except some who code in assembler
Puh-lease. I haven’t touched JCL in years but, Puh-lease. :-)
You think YOU cringe, try to imagine what it feels like when I am called to solve a coding problem / bug / feature with a minimum of four scripting languages (I hate to label it thus but since so many people use it; also including html) and they need someone who thinks in Assembly to figure out that they are misusing or multiple-writing to the same registry addy, among other things.
Or Dbase4?
I know Dbase4/FoxPro, BASIC, COBOL, Pascal and ForTran plus some HTML/CSS.
I am officially a dinosaur.
And you're not alone. For me it's Assembler, Basic, Cobol, Fortran, Pascal, RPG, Perl, Bash, C, PHP, Expect/TCL, a little Python, Ruby, C# and gag me, some VB.
file DSN error
i last used RPG about 25 yrs ago
By a strange coincidence, so did I. Sometime around the Iranian Conflict, I believe... however coding was not involved at the time as near as I can recall.
Where is UML in this universe? It’s a pre-programming language.
“Ever hear of Mono?”
I sure have, but I’ve yet to run across a single web application that uses it. There’s a big difference between using Microsoft supported software on a Microsoft platform, and an open source implementation that only covers parts of the Windows package - also there is no standard web container for it. Plus, Mono generally underperforms Java so there’s nothing compelling there either.
I think it’s nice that Mono exists, as competition and choice are always good, but it’s a tiny fraction of Linux web development compared to the Java platform.
BTW I meant to mention that I share your appreciation of Scala. :-)
RE: Where is UML in this universe?
This list is only for PROGRAMMING languages. UML is a general-purpose modeling technique in the field of software engineering to to create visual models of object-oriented software-intensive systems.
It says “programming skills”.
XML and HTML are not programming languages, but rather markup languages used for data modeling. UML is used for modeling design solutions.
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