The Rise and Fall of Languages in 2012
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The Rise and Fall of Languages in 2012
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#2"Out of the ~250 programs I wrote last year, 2-3 would have benefited from being written in a functional style."
Donald Knuth
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#3"Out of the ~250 programs I wrote last year, 2-3 would have benefited from being written in a functional style." Donald Knuth
And out of the ~250 programs that Knuth wrote last year, 2-3 would have solved a similar problem that your typical professional programmer would solve.
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#4Does anyone else see a lucrative consulting opportunity in declining languages? I know a LOT of people still writing COBOL for a very good living, so who's to say in 10-15 years you won't be re-factoring enterprise Java in the same way.
Of course, you might want to just kill yourself first.
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#6"Out of the ~250 programs I wrote last year, 2-3 would have benefited from being written in a functional style." Donald Knuth
You should go read some Donald Knuth source code, or use a Donald Knuth Design (try TeX).
Seriously I love this crazy guy, incredibly smart, but he can't code _properly_ for his life. This sums it up: He applied his intelligence in unconventional ways, winning a contest when he was in eighth grade by finding over 4,500 words that could be formed from the letters in "Ziegler's Giant Bar"; the judges had only about 2,500 words on their master list. This won him a television set for his school and a candy bar for everyone in his class.
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#7Does anyone else see a lucrative consulting opportunity in declining languages? I know a LOT of people still writing COBOL for a very good living, so who's to say in 10-15 years you won't be re-factoring enterprise Java in the same way. Of course, you might want to just kill yourself first.
There's nothing wrong with writing COBOL. It isn't new and shiny, but is that all everyone looks for in a job?
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#8It seems a shame about TCL. It has some cool ideas, including at least some degree of homoiconicity. I don't suppose a new replacement with the design warts removed would get much traction, either.
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#9Does anyone else see a lucrative consulting opportunity in declining languages? I know a LOT of people still writing COBOL for a very good living, so who's to say in 10-15 years you won't be re-factoring enterprise Java in the same way. Of course, you might want to just kill yourself first.
I personally wouldn't plan a business model around technology laggards.
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#10Someone else posted this another thread and I agree: any methodology that determines that JavaScript is "treading water" is suspect. Even if you ignore JS on the server side, I would be very surprised if its importance and use was not increasing pretty rapidly.