Linked by Roberto J. Dohnert on Wed 28th Jul 2004 17:23 UTC
Most of us that work in the IT industry have been around for a long time. We started out in our parents basement writing code in some BASIC environment, ussually Commodore BASIC or QBASIC. Do you remember how thrilling it was? Your first program and it was something extremely basic but the point was it worked. Some of us got hooked right away and kept trying to solve problems and added more and more pushing the capabilities of whatever language we used. As we got older the environments progressed and the programming tools progressed and got more complicated.
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C++ programming seems to be the top dog programming language in the world today. Everyone seems to love C++. C++ is the cadillac of the development world.
I like C++, but it's development has somewhat stalled in the past. While C++ is a good compromise between speed and abstraction, other languages focussed on different aspects. Java did a great job on providing a uniform system to a limited set of platforms and having a huge standard library.
Other languages focussed on specific problem domains (PHP for the web) or specific kind of problems (Prolog) or concurrent programming (Erlang) and so on.
And other stuff is still very important, just because so much important code is there (Fortran, COBOL)..
Regards,
Marc