Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.lang.java.programmer > #10443

Re: java developers

Path csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail
NNTP-Posting-Date Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:30:38 -0600
Date Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:30:31 -0800
From Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0
MIME-Version 1.0
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: java developers
References <curixinfotech.540mfz@no-mx.forums.yourdomain.com.au> <jb593f$8mb$1@dont-email.me> <32752303.88.1322663566686.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prfx15> <4ed94b43$0$281$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>
In-Reply-To <4ed94b43$0$281$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>
Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding 8bit
Message-ID <E7SdnfZByPgSzETTnZ2dnUVZ_oSdnZ2d@earthlink.com> (permalink)
Lines 18
X-Usenet-Provider http://www.giganews.com
NNTP-Posting-Host 70.230.194.31
X-Trace sv3-oSzi9Rlol5TqeR0j05DtOJhIT1cvTVaT46i1EXFWclXPMUaSJkoLLF49LnzTcRDjqCIjOlQLgzLj0iA!A2IbLxSSyy+aMUW7spvuvwKZqwkwZynCTQvWX4Xm6Lm02IMXiFZbYlwPDKMOj32UfTc1M2XUUJqu!NAf60PEyC0BlfKzk0nGeggFMLRXbj3OvLm8Ew4BYrdBkUA==
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly
X-Postfilter 1.3.40
X-Original-Bytes 1881
Xref x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:10443

Show key headers only | View raw

On 12/2/2011 2:03 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>
>>
>> Not entirely true. There are plenty of COBOL programmers out there
>> who
>> don't need much of a second language. There are AnySingleLanguage
>> programmer career tracks that are long and boring.
>
> I think Cobol is the only language so far that have been
> able to cover an entire worklife as mainstream language.

What about Fortran?

Of course, the field is limited. If one assumes a work-life is about 50
years (ages 20 to 70), a contender needed to be a mainstream language in
the early 1960's.

Patricia

Back to comp.lang.java.programmer | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

java developers curixinfotech <curixinfotech.540mfz@no-mx.forums.yourdomain.com.au> - 2011-11-30 07:14 -0500
  Re: java developers Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-30 07:55 -0500
    Re: java developers Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-30 06:32 -0800
      Re: java developers Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-11-30 09:41 -0800
      Re: java developers Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-02 17:03 -0500
        Re: java developers Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-12-02 14:30 -0800
          Re: java developers Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-02 18:40 -0500
            Re: java developers Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-12-03 14:42 +0000
              Re: java developers Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-03 10:09 -0500
                Re: java developers Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-04 22:17 -0500
              Re: java developers Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-04 22:11 -0500
    Re: java developers curixinfotech <curixinfotech.54dibz@no-mx.forums.yourdomain.com.au> - 2011-12-07 05:56 -0500
  Re: java developers Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-02 01:48 -0800
  Re: java developers Rajiv Gupta <rajiv@invalid.com> - 2011-12-02 22:16 +1100
    Re: java developers David Segall <david@address.invalid> - 2011-12-02 23:17 +1100
      Re: java developers Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-02 16:29 -0500
        Re: java developers David Segall <david@address.invalid> - 2011-12-03 15:15 +1100
    Re: java developers Henk van Voorthuijsen <voorth@xs4all.nl> - 2011-12-02 03:39 -0800
    Re: java developers Silvio Bierman <silvio@moc.com> - 2011-12-02 14:43 +0100
    Re: java developers Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-12-02 07:32 -0800
    Re: java developers Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2011-12-02 18:18 +0100
      Re: java developers Rajiv Gupta <rajiv@invalid.com> - 2011-12-04 10:50 +1100
        Re: java developers Wojtek <nowhere@a.com> - 2011-12-03 19:43 -0800
        Re: java developers Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-12-04 10:56 +0000
        Re: java developers Silvio Bierman <silvio@moc.com> - 2011-12-05 11:00 +0100
          Re: java developers Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-05 22:38 -0500
            Re: java developers Silvio Bierman <silvio@moc.com> - 2011-12-06 10:33 +0100
          Re: java developers Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-12-06 21:17 +0000
            Re: java developers Silvio Bierman <silvio@moc.com> - 2011-12-07 15:09 +0100
  Re: java developers dsnitelex@gmail.com - 2011-12-02 21:51 -0800
    Re: java developers Silvio Bierman <silvio@moc.com> - 2011-12-03 10:51 +0100
      Re: java developers Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-12-03 11:41 -0400
      Re: java developers Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-04 22:28 -0500
        Re: java developers Silvio Bierman <silvio@moc.com> - 2011-12-05 10:31 +0100
          Re: java developers Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-05 22:35 -0500
            Re: java developers Silvio Bierman <silvio@moc.com> - 2011-12-06 10:25 +0100
        Re: java developers Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-12-06 21:10 +0000
    Re: java developers BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2011-12-05 22:52 -0800
      Re: java developers Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-12-06 06:49 -0400

csiph-web