Subj : Re: What things should successful programmers-to-be learn right now?
To   : comp.programming
From : Duane Bozarth
Date : Wed Jul 27 2005 09:35 am

wee wrote:
> 
> 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.

You have a <very> narrow viewpoint, as you apparently at least
realize....

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