Whats the average age?

[Daniel Duffy]

In defence of Cobol..

For the record, moi was a certified JSP Cobol programmer. These days major/critical application run Cobol with Java GUI plumbing. It would be unfair to knock Cobol without knowing where it is used. Cobol is not a 'quiche language'.

The Cobol programmers I know are always complaining about the flaky/buggy code that they get from the Java team.

Now, if you mention PL/I I might agree that that is a language that is not a household name.

 

[Jay YK Kim]

I'm almost 25 right now and one more year to finish my MS in FE. A lot of my Chinese classmates are mostly younger than I am.

Regardless of whether this degree will lead me to awesome job or not, I'm just glad that I finally found something that I would be glad to study about.

 

[John Heisenberg]

The truth is computer hardware is just going to get faster and faster. Software efficiency is no longer the goal in such a computing environment but developer productivity and program correctness. The only advantage of using c++ is that it is close to the hardware, real-time and efficient.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

"The truth is computer hardware is just going to get faster and faster. Software efficiency is no longer the goal in such a computing environment but developer productivity and program correctness. The only advantage of using c++ is that it is close to the hardware, real-time and efficient."

The above statement is "not even wrong" as they say in mathematics.

People said exactly the same in the 70s about the language not being important.

Do you have quantitative numbers to back this up? I reckon C# is ~ 4 times more productive than C++ but AFAIK no computer games or PDE pricing libraries are made in Java nor C#.

Program correctness (or lack thereof) is a function of the tradesman using it, and less so the language

 

[Daniel Duffy]

In general, the language is not the issue indeed. First understand the problem, talk to your client, and choose the most appropriate environment for the client.

TIOBE index August 2013 (C++ is #3 so what can we conclude?)

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

There's a lot of personal preferences and prejudices in software and not enough engineering IMO.

 

[alain]

I knew my remark would get a response, every time To be honest, such comments are not very constructive.

Your comment was not very constructive either.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

Your comment was not very constructive either.

Which part did you not like?