Re: Popular Languages

From	Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
Newsgroups	comp.programming
Subject	Re: Popular Languages
Date	2012-06-20 09:06 +0200
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Ant wrote:

[ Ada ]

> If you work on military or aerospace projects you'll likely need it.
> It's an active language, last revised in 2005 I believe.

Actually the last revision finished earlier this year (pending final ISO
approval).

> See also Ada jobs for "well paid". In my opinion, all programmers
> should should know C and at least some C++ - it's a basic thing like
> learning to read and write. Much documentation and example code
> assumes C knowledge.

Definitely true for APIs.  Algoritms still seem to be documented in
Pascal-like pseudo-code, but I'm not sure you need to learn Pascal to
understand it.

Greetings,

Jacob
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<URL: small-talk://work/hallway-meeting/...>

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