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Re: Don't Be Distracted by Superior Technology

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Post by miga »

Times change. Interestingly enough, "fringe" languages were breathed new life with introduction of LLVM, and Haskell is no longer research project, so there are industry job offers there too.

And we know what happened with "winners" within a wave of dynamic languages: JavaScript, Python and Ruby developers are quite often paid higher wages, than old-style C programmers.

Re: Don't Be Distracted by Superior Technology

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Post by doktrin »

miga wrote: post #3

Times change. Interestingly enough, "fringe" languages were breathed new life with introduction of LLVM, and Haskell is no longer research project, so there are industry job offers there too. And we know what happened with "winners" within a wave of dynamic languages: JavaScript, Python and Ruby developers are quite often paid higher wages, than old-style C programmers.

This is sort of like pointing out the obvious, but that's just a change in the market, and has comparatively little to do with the languages themselves.

There's no reason C programmers can't easily transition into web development. The inverse, assuming that the market for C development will remain static is just illogical (likewise for the current in-demand languages).

Developers are developers IMHO. Languages are tools. What tool a developer uses is incidental and inevitably subject to change.

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Post by ams6110 »

Ah Modula-2. Used it in one of my undergrad CS classes, ca. 1986. Never touched it anywhere else since. Back then every semester was a different language. Used at least C, PL/1, Pascal, Modula-2, Scheme, assembler. The language itself was not covered in the lectures, you were supposed to figure that out on your own time.

Re: Don't Be Distracted by Superior Technology

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Post by coldtea »

miga wrote: post #3

Times change. Interestingly enough, "fringe" languages were breathed new life with introduction of LLVM, and Haskell is no longer research project, so there are industry job offers there too. And we know what happened with "winners" within a wave of dynamic languages: JavaScript, Python and Ruby developers are quite often paid higher wages, than old-style C programmers.

>Haskell is no longer research project, so there are industry job offers there too.

Well, there are far fewer Haskell job offers than Haskell programmers.

>And we know what happened with "winners" within a wave of dynamic languages: JavaScript, Python and Ruby developers are quite often paid higher wages, than old-style C programmers.

Are they? I'm not so sure a competent C programmers earns less than a Javascript/Python/Ruby guy.

Re: Don't Be Distracted by Superior Technology

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Post by BruceIV »

miga wrote: post #3

Times change. Interestingly enough, "fringe" languages were breathed new life with introduction of LLVM, and Haskell is no longer research project, so there are industry job offers there too. And we know what happened with "winners" within a wave of dynamic languages: JavaScript, Python and Ruby developers are quite often paid higher wages, than old-style C programmers.

Fringe languages are fine. Just remember the downsides when you're thinking about using them in production.
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