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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Ahem. If you're doing mathematical processing, Fortran is still a fine choice today.
And if you're writing financial transaction software to run on a mainframe for a large >50 year old bank, COBOL is a fine choice today. Likewise for ADA and DoD Avionics.
All're very small niches today; and poor choices to start with if you're interested in general employability within a few weeks as seems to be the main goal for bootcamp attendees.
And at that, AFAIK Python + NumPy has been steadily eroding Fortran's share of scientific computing from the bottom up.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Relatively speaking C, C++ and Ada are fairly new. Around 1980. Ada was supposed to be a 4th generation language but I have yet to figure how that is true. Guess it is sort of like saying the F-35 is so much better than the F-16.
FORTRAN 1957
Ada 1980
Algol 1958
Basic 1964
C 1978
C++ 1983
COBOL 1957
APL 1964
Pascal 1970
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I still have my copy of this book from my university days - should go take a flip through it again...
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Andreas Mertens wrote: I still have my copy of this book from my university days
It has some very interesting, succinct algorithms in it.
My forthcoming book, Launch Your Android App, is available for pre-sale at Amazon.com -- releases on April 1, 2016 (no joke). 
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LISP 1958 (contemporaneous with Algol same year)
COBOL 1959 (based on Adm. Grace Hoppper's FLOW-MATIC of 1955-1959)
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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"Look: another bug. It belongs to you. You are the software guys", said Joanthan, the hardware guy. He handed the bug over to Bernie.
Bernie opened a book on entomology and searched for the chapter on Heteroptera (bugs). He took his magnifying glass to scrutinize that bug. The first steps were easy: the bug belongs to Geocorisae.
But then things became more complicated. The bug had dried during hibernation in the ceiling, and Jonathan - and also his cats - did not handle the bug with due care. Some antennas and tarsi were broken. Miridae... Atractotomus.
"OK, Ataractumus. Male or female?", Jonathan was not yet content with the answer.
"You find so many of them every day, just put them together, and watch them." "You mean you could find that out so easily? They might be gay." "Gay bugs? Never heard of that. I know homosexuality exists among mammals and birds. But gay bugs?" "Why should all bugs be straight?"
"Anyway, does that matter?" asked Bernie after a short pause. Then he opened a window and disposed of the bug.
Fortunately, Atractotomus implements IDisposable.
Unfortunately, disposed bugs might return...
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: Unfortunately, disposed bugs might return...
Only if they don't head for a little snack in the garbage can and then get collected.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Monomyth - LHC[^]
Instrumental psychedelic space rock band from Den Haag (or The Hague as it's known internationally).
Read an interview, listened to their music, made them my song of the week 
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You're slipping! That's almost bearable. Overextended and lacking any genuine clue about variation, development and dynamics but almost bearable.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I'm pretty sure you never posted about that new Napster release...
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There wasn't one that fitted the very strict criteria. There were a couple that I liked but that's not the point. Who knows what the morrow will bring.
Meanwhile somebody in the Guardian this morning said they'd never heard of this track[^] nor its creators. I don't believe it!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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9082365 wrote: Meanwhile somebody in the Guardian this morning said they'd never heard of this track[^] nor its creators. I don't believe it!
I wish I'd never heard of it 
Nothing worse than a rock ballad (contradiction, ballads don't rock), music wise...
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Sander Rossel wrote: Nothing worse than a rock ballad
Aww, c'mon! Don't you wanna take a little time, time to think things over? You really don't wanna miss a thing!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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9082365 wrote: You really don't wanna miss a thing!
I want to miss rock ballads
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Yeah! I just so happen to know them from the same magazine as I know Monomyth from 
Reminds me to check out the new Spiritual Beggars[^] 
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Ask anyone not living in the Nether lands if they can name a Dutch rock band.
Very few can come up with anything other than Golden Earring, if at all.
Now we know why, BOOOORING!
I mean seriously, Scorpions are making fun uptempo songs in comparison. (Some of them really are actually, but that's completely besides the point I was trying to make)
Your homework for next week is to give us something that rocks, and makes us Smile. 
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Harsh words and, luckily, not true!
I'm going to ignore your opinion on Monomyth, I'll just say it's not supposed to be fun uptempo.
So none other than Golden Earring!?
As far as I know the only Dutch band to ever score a #1 hit in America is Shocking Blue with Venus[^] (just like Golden Earring and Monomyth also from The Hague).
And if that doesn't rock enough for ya here's an awesome live performance of Hocus Pocus by Focus[^] (on international television)! Their guitarist, Jan Akkerman, was considered best guitar player in the world at the time! Their singer, Thijs van Leer, also got much international recognition.
And what about George Baker[^]!? Everybody knows George Baker (they just don't know he's Dutch)
Other Dutch pop bands that have enjoyed some international fame include Q65, Earth & Fire, and The Cats.
And the Van Halen brothers, Alex and Eddie, were born in the Dutch city of Nijmegen and lived in the Netherlands for the better part of their childhood (before moving to America and making music there)!
Currently we're doing pretty well in the international DJ scene with #1 DJ in the world Tiësto, and others like Armin van Buuren, Hardwell, Fedde le Grand, and Afrojack.
We also helped shape the symphonic/gothic rock and metal scene with acts such as The Gathering, After Forever, Within Temptation, and Epica.
We're also well represented in all kinds of sub-genres, such as black, death, and doom metal, electronic, and dance music.
So maybe it's you who should do your homework before insulting an entire nation about their music
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It wasn't meant to be that harsh, rather a bit of a kick on your choice of music.
But never the less I believe it to be more or less true.
Let's skip those DJ's as they aren't rock bands as I stated.
And seriously, none of the others you have mentioned have registered with me except Van Halen. And they do count as 'mercans for most people.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: And seriously, none of the others you have mentioned have registered with me except Van Halen.
Whose fault is that mr. Europe, Abba, and Ghost?
Perhaps you knew Sweden has their own death metal sound pioneered by bands such as Entombed, Dismember, Unleashed, and Grave?
And then there's the more melodic Gothenburg death metal, such as In Flames, and At The Gates.
The Swedish black metal is also a little different from the Norwegian neighbors.
Sweden serves us well with other bands such as Meshuggah, Arch Enemy, Soilwork, Hypocrisy, Opeth, Amon Amarth, Watain...
Your electronic/pop music scene is also not bad!
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I'm fully aware that we have a very live and well death metal scene here. I've actually been working with the mother of one of the members of In Flames, for what it's worth. 
You also forgot to mention Millencollin, Therion and not the least Candlemass. So ok they're a different kind of metal, but worth to mention still.
And while Death metal isn't really my cup of tea I do like to listen to In Flames, Amon Amarth and Meshuggah.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Therion and not the least Candlemass
Those are awesome bands indeed!
Jörgen Andersson wrote: Millencollin
NO NO NO!!! Punk rock!? 
Jörgen Andersson wrote: In Flames, Amon Amarth and Meshuggah
Not much of an In Flames fan, I like my metal a little more... metal.
Meshuggah is awesome! Textures[^] is their Dutch counterpart
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Sorry, but I happen to like punk rock. 
I always liked music with drive, energy and tempo.
So not just punk rock but also including (without excluding) rockabilly, punkabilly, psychobilly and bluegrass[^].
Anyway, since you like death metal, and Monomyth.
Have you ever heard Impetuous Ritual[^]?
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