Subj : Re: What things should successful programmers-to-be learn right now?
To   : comp.programming
From : wee
Date : Wed Jul 27 2005 07:31 am

I personally haven't heard of any of these being used in an industry
that I'm familiar with:

> At least one of:
>     Scheme
>     Haskell
>     SML
>     CAML
> At least one of:
>     Forth
>     Prolog
>     Postscript
> At least one of:
>     Smalltalk
>  . . . .
>     Objective-C


I do, however, know many companies that use:

1. Java (with Struts, etc.--mostly for web application dev, though some
companies mistakenly use it for desktop dev)
2. PHP (for webpage dev)
3. C++
4. Perl or Python (for programmers' tool development mostly)
5. VB even
6. any .NET tech (ASP, VB.NET, C#, C++.NET, etc.)
7. Learn XML!!!!! :-) --- though not a language per se, it is the most
fundamental way to store/use data these days for anything (web,
configuration, data, etc.)

FORTRAN is used in Universities as far as I know for research.

This is from my limited POV. I've only been in the business for 5-6 yrs
and mostly in the Java web/desktop realm.

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