Posted by Rami Elomaa on 05/19/07 17:20

Toby A Inkster kirjoitti:
> 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.
>
> 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.
>

This raises an interesting question though. Going a bit off-topic now,
but I've been wondering if I should start training another language now.
Over the years I've advanced from C to C++ to Java (plus a little
assembly) and now I somehow ended up in doing php for a living. It's
occupying me now, but in 5-10 years maybe not, there might be a new
language behind the horizon that will be the new trend. Just to keep
myself busy I actually tried Ruby the other day (or in fact, Ruby on
Rails) for fun and managed to "hello world", and when I have plenty of
time I will try it out more. I'm just thinking that the era of php will
eventually die, and if I don't become a Pointy-Haired Boss by the time,
I need to know the new language, so what should I be looking at? No one
can predict the future, but are there any hot new languages on the rise
that might be worthy of knowing...?

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