This site also seems to confirm this:
http://www.eweek.com/developer/slideshows/top-10-programming-languages-for-job-seekers-in-2014.html
Top 10 Programming Languages for Job Seekers in 2014
Fortran can’t be far behind. Hey, didn’t you just love punching those cards?
BFL
Me = Apple BASIC -> FORTRAN-77 -> Assembler -> PASCAL -> BASIC -> C 6.0 -> Visual C++ -> Visual C#. Probably the end of the line. You never know though.
Java and Python? I have been in the business since 80’s and I can count the java and python guys I know on one hand. All the guys I know use C++ and/or C# to make a living with since the lion share of biz apps are written in a MS language/platform.
What people hack with in the garage at night is inconsequential to me.
I have worked with a couple interpretive languages and they suck. While they are geared for rapid development and allow a less technical person to code, they allow you to bend too many rules and they tend to introduce run-time errors you may not find until well after a release.
The funny thing, if you know the history of these languages, is that Java deliberately rejected the dynamic, interpreted approach. The history of computer languages since 1975 has been C versus Smalltalk. In 1976 the concepts of Smalltalk were considered too hard for most programmers, but language designers felt they could borrow a few features at a time. Java borrowed object orientation and virtual machines, but not dynamic typing or being interpreted. But as the industry continued on, those design choices became limitations.
My first programing experience was Fortran IV using paper punch cards. I survived a college class in Java Scripting and ASP...next to Physical Chemistry the toughest class I ever took.
RTL, TCL, PERL, Verilog ... every stinkin day
C# and .net are msoft’s best products. .Net actually seems to do pretty much everything CORBA was supposed to do without it taking up two or three times the size and complexity of the OS it supposedly sits on. Watching Tau CORBA take two days to compile and build pretty much told me everything I needed to know about CORBA.
I see that MS-BASIC has fallen off the list. Drat. I was just getting the hang of it.
Trying to teach myself Objective C.
Kind of fun and it codes for OSX, ipad and iphone.
Where does Objective-C show up? Is the chart convoluted and bastardized like Objective-C. Do you Or C++ and C to get the results?
Three years of development and I've finally got it to print out "Hello Worlh".
Dang it.
I hate it when someone looked over my shoulder to look at my codes to solve an engineering problem and say, “You still using that code? It went obsolete six months ago!”
what...no COBOL?
I’m surprised that PHP is doing so poorly. It’s about all I use for my website development.