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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 05/20/07 02:28
Toby A Inkster wrote:
> shotokan99 wrote:
>
>> actually im new to php. so im reading if how far it goes and if it
>> will keep going, considering the advent of .net, ajax, c#,j2ee...etc.
>> if i stay faithfull to php, will there always be a place in web php?
>
> In 40-50 years or so, it's unlikely that *any* of them will still be
> commonly used.
>
> How many languages from the 1950s and 1960s are still in use? Take a look
> at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_languages -- how
> many of those names do you even recognise? How many are still in common
> use? I'd say just two from each decade: FORTRAN, LISP, BASIC and LOGO.
>
FORTRAN, COBOL, 360 Assembler - to name the three biggest ones I saw
back in the late 60's. And COBOL is still the most prevalent language
in the world - mainly because of the hundreds of millions of lines of
code which have been written (and must be maintained).
LISP, BASIC and LOGO were not available at that time.
> The languages you mention (C#, Java, Javascript and PHP) were all
> developed in the last 15 years.
>
> In 50 years time, a handful of today's programming languages will probably
> still be in common use, but it's unlikely to be the ones we expect. Don't
> expect learning a single language to set you up for a life of programming
> employment. You've got to keep learning new languages and techniques.
>
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