Posted on 06/27/2015 7:57:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
"Software is eating the world," venture capitalist Marc Andreessen famously declared. Someone has to write that software. Why not you?
There are thousands of programming languages, but some are far more popular than others. When a company goes out to find new programming talent, they're looking for people familiar with the languages and systems they already use — and they don't always want to experiment with newcomers like Google Go or Apple Swift.
Here are the programming languages you should learn if you always want to have a job, as suggested by the popular TIOBE Index and Redmonk Programming Language Rankings.
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Learn Angular and node.js.
Besides the above plot, which can be difficult to parse even at full size, we offer the following numerical rankings. As will be observed, this run produced several ties which are reflected below (they are listed out here alphabetically rather than consolidated as ties because the latter approach led to misunderstandings).
1 JavaScript
2 Java
3 PHP
4 Python
5 C#
5 C++
5 Ruby
8 CSS
9 C
10 Objective-C
11 Perl
11 Shell
13 R
14 Scala
15 Haskell
16 Matlab
17 Go
17 Visual Basic
19 Clojure
19 Groovy
By the narrowest of margins, JavaScript edged Java for the top spot in the rankings, but as always, the difference between the two is so marginal as to be insignificant. The most important takeaway is that the language frequently written off for dead and the language sometimes touted as the future have shown sustained growth and traction and remain, according to this measure, the most popular offerings.
So, programmers, tell me which language is glaringly absent, and yet has billions of lines of critical code ...
Where is RTL ?
COBOL.
Banks world-wide are running millions and billions of lines of Cobol code still to this day. Much of that code hasn't changed in decades either.
Me, professor, me...yes, the answer is...Spanish. Do I get an "A"?
The one that will actually land you a stable maintenance job, COBOL. :-)
I was going to say RPG, But most likely its COBOL. Insurance/reinsurance banking and leasing companies still use it.
Bkmrk.
COBOL is missing what you are thinking of (APL is also missing).
I’m currently a C# DotNET programmer for Windows based automated testing systems. But I’m reaching retirement age so it’s time for the young bucks to take over. Started off with COBOL, FORTRAN and assembly language when they were hot. LOL
One is an object oriented programming language, the other is a web scripting language. That's a pretty significant difference.
So the ALGOL I learned at university is no good any more...:^)
Cascading Style Sheets is a language?
Companies have been promised cheap foreign labor using the H-1B system. They are holding out for cheap labor. They are not hiring Americans.
Swift is a biggie for the future in some worlds. Personally Objective C went on way too long. That hideous hybrid is probably the single element that kept Apple from overtaking Microsoft.
I really like Python if you work with Unix/Linux batch jobs. You can really simplify a lot of Korn and Bash job networks.
I didn’t see ABAP out there. As wordy as it is there are tremendous employment opportunities with it. It’s not as bad as it used to be.
Didn’t do Fortran but a lot of BAL (That’s Assembler for the younguns’).
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