[Discuss] Top Ten Dying IT Skills

[pw]

Lloyd Budd wrote:
> On 6/20/07, pw <p.willis at telus.net> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> This link was forwarded to me by a co-worker regarding the
>> top ten dying IT skills:
>>
>> http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?id=idgml-df448267-0124-4499&sub=208333 
>>
> 
> "6. C programming As the Web takes over, C languages are also becoming
> less relevant, according to Stewart Padveen, Internet entrepreneur and
> founder of AdPickles Inc."
> 
> Don't know what planet Stewart Padveen is living on.
> 
> Cheers,


He must be talking about *Web* and business-office I.T. .

To be honest, any C programming I do has less to do with IT
and more to do with custom signal processing, and engineering
hardware development and I/O. So I can't really speak to the
'IT' aspects of C/C++ per se.

Having said that, I do use C/C++ CGI scripts that certainly
outperform the PHP/perl/java/python counter parts. This is partly
because of how the former handle (or can't handle) some types of data
and file access and the relative overhead in abstraction and memory
use for complex tasks for various languages.
But this is a special case here so, once again,
I can't speak to the market relative 'IT' aspects of that.

I can't believe COBOL is out. I keep having this feeling that
somewhere, 40 years from now, I'm going to run into some chunk
of legacy COBOL code that is propping up the worlds last hope for
survival, and somebody forgets to space over the right number of 
characters. [shiver]

Peter