For the I.T. geeks of Warpath: Which programming languages are dead?

[skinsguy]

Originally Posted by Buster

I used to be an expert in BASIC, QBASIC, also used Visual BASIC and Pascal fairly proficiently and dabbled in Fortran, COBOL and C+. I wrote some really useful BASIC programs and made games with some impressive (at that time) graphics. Made a field goal kicking game with graphics better than the original Madden, as well as a golf game.


That was a long, LONG time ago, back in the DOS days. Bet they're all dead now.

I'm guessing Java and HTML are the "hot" ones now. I'm not into programming really anymore. Also, could open source systems like Linux and all of its children be considered programming?

Well, if you're building a Linux distro, yeah it would be considered programming, but I would think that Linux is more or less something from the non-profits who are funded by different grants and agencies....especially since the large majority of its operating systems and programs are free.

I have been going back and doing some javascripting...I had forgotten a lot of it, but it's fairly simple to do javascripting....AJAX programming goes along with javascript. Java was tough for me to learn for some reason. I guess I never got the "class" concept down, but if I ever became and expert with java, I'd probably have several programming jobs to choose from.

With HTML, I feel like just about anybody could learn that. I picked up on HTML even before I ever considered getting into "computers".

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by skinsguy

Well, if you're building a Linux distro, yeah it would be considered programming, but I would think that Linux is more or less something from the non-profits who are funded by different grants and agencies....especially since the large majority of its operating systems and programs are free.

I have been going back and doing some javascripting...I had forgotten a lot of it, but it's fairly simple to do javascripting....AJAX programming goes along with javascript. Java was tough for me to learn for some reason. I guess I never got the "class" concept down, but if I ever became and expert with java, I'd probably have several programming jobs to choose from.

With HTML, I feel like just about anybody could learn that. I picked up on HTML even before I ever considered getting into "computers".

Learning OOP is going to be a key.

[skinsguy]

Originally Posted by FRPLG

Learning OOP is going to be a key.

Can I teach myself Peoplesoft at home? I really don't feel like taking a class for it (not even sure if they have a class at the local college.)

I know I need to go back and dive back into Java....I just wished it had came a little easier for me when I was taking the class back in college.