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Ashley van Gerven wrote: Not on the list, but PHP also gets my vote
same here, except I'd rather work w/ php than asp.net (not that php is any better, just my odd preference).
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PHP is on my learning list, but what about Javascript?
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Yes, another vote for PHP. I don't mind ASP.Net, but love PHP (particulary PHP5) and develop primarily with PHP5 these days.
Senior Developer/Systems Architect File56 Technology Holdings
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Hey, what about borland c++ 6.0 / Borland studio 2006. These are to be in the list too!
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I can't believe that Borland is still around! Wow!
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Bor- who?
We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them. Steve Jobs
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Excuse the pun, looks like C# is taking over where C++ was.
We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them. Steve Jobs
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It looks like it. SQL and C# seem to be very popular these days. I wonder how many people use both and how many don't use them together (by that I mean, people building database apps).
WM
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Too many people reading, updating and shoving information into the database. Not very exciting
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Lidzhade Fhulu wrote: Too many people reading, updating and shoving information into the database. Not very exciting
The exciting bit is at the end of the month - the fat pay check.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: The exciting bit is at the end of the month - the fat pay check.
As I said before in a similar occasion - if you are here for the money, learn Cobol
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: As I said before in a similar occasion - if you are here for the money, learn Cobol
I am too old now - I wish I got that advice 10 years ago
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Oh no Nish, on the contrary you have to be very old to know Cobol.
We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them. Steve Jobs
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norm .net wrote: Oh no Nish, on the contrary you have to be very old to know Cobol.
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So very true!
We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them. Steve Jobs
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WillemM wrote: SQL and C# seem to be very popular these days.
And five years ago it was VB+SQL or Delphi+SQL or Java+SQL. Nothing wrong with it - most business applications are written that way.
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I'm not saying it isn't good, I love it and I think it will stay here for a long time too.
WM
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or the c++ guys/girls are not awake yet.
:->
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or more like they're becoming the minority
We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them. Steve Jobs
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norm .net wrote: they're becoming the minority
We were always the minority - there were always more business internal apps programmers than the system/library/real-time/whatever ones. Only they change their languages more often - PowerBuilder/VB/Delphi/Java/C#. We are pretty much constrained to either C or C++.
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Well said!
As they are business internal apps that change according to the latest fad that the development manager has caught on to. The impact of change is internal, but for system/library/real-time, the impact maybe a plane crash.
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This is mainly an MS website so it's probably not surprising.
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I for one voted for both C++ and C#, however I do 97% of my work in the C++ realm. So while my votes may show an even split between C++ and C#, my main focus is C++. At the time I typed this message however, it would seem that even if you assumed all C++ people were like me, that C# would be about as popular as C++. Oh well.
In case Chris or anyone else cares.... MFC however is all but dead to me. I could care less about it. The articles I find most interesting on CP discuss are (in order of importance to me):
- Platform independent C++ code (I know I won't find very many articles about this on CP)
- Win32 API
- C++/CLI
- C#
- VB.NET
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KevinHall wrote: Platform independent C++ code (I know I won't find very many articles about this on CP)
Actually, there are quite a few of them, and some are very good.
Of course, if you meant not many relative to C# or MFC articles, you are right.
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: Actually, there are quite a few of them, and some are very good.
Of course, if you meant not many relative to C# or MFC articles, you are right.
I think you read my post too quickly. C# obviously isn't C++ and MFC isn't platform independent.
What I meant was C++ code that could be used on Windows and Unix and Linux and VxWorks and uItron and .... This usually involves templates or some open-source generic library -- say for handling UTF-8 strings (not that you would know anything about that )
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