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 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: <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: 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 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