From sfcamacho at gmail.com  Mon Oct 27 04:42:29 2008
From: sfcamacho at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9rgio_Camacho?=)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:42:29 +0000
Subject: [Porto-pm] =?iso-8859-1?q?Linguagens_em_decl=EDnio?=
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O que acham disto?


**

*
*

*Skills in Ancient Languages Valued Less*
*Financial Times Digital Business (10/22/08) P. 5; Nairn, Geoff*

Some IT skills, while clearly not dead yet, are certainly being put out to
pasture. For example, the once-hot fourth-generation programming language
PowerBuilder is now largely forgotten by many employers. Foote Partners CEO
David Foote says PowerBuilder is one of several programming languages in
long-term decline, including Hewlett-Packard's variant on the Unix language,
HP-UX, Perl, and C. IT workers skilled in these declining languages have
seen their pay levels drop by 11 percent or more in the past 12 months,
according to Foote Partners' latest survey. Foote says C is not going to go
away because it is widely used in embedded devices, but there is no need for
businesses to have someone write applications in C. Even some newer IT
skills are already finding themselves less and less in demand. For example,
Wireless Markup Language (WML), which became popular about eight years ago
as a way of creating mobile Internet sites that could be viewed by early
mobile browsers, is already in decline. Over the last 12 months, as mobile
devices continue to become more powerful, the market value of WML skills has
dropped 12.5 percent. Another popular skill that is fading away is Novell
Netware, which has since been overwhelmed by the rapid rise of Microsoft
Windows, which comes with built-in networking. Foote says that demand for
Microsoft and open source skills are on long-term upward trends, and notes
that year-on-year comparisons can be influenced by short-term supply trends.

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From cogurov at gmail.com  Mon Oct 27 04:56:19 2008
From: cogurov at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Castro?=)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:56:19 +0000
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Eu acho que quem escreveu o artigo era mais um jornalista t?pico, que n?o
sabe do que fala :-)


2008/10/27 S?rgio Camacho <sfcamacho at gmail.com>

> O que acham disto?
>
>
> **
>
> *
> *
>
> *Skills in Ancient Languages Valued Less*
> *Financial Times Digital Business (10/22/08) P. 5; Nairn, Geoff*
>
> Some IT skills, while clearly not dead yet, are certainly being put out to
> pasture. For example, the once-hot fourth-generation programming language
> PowerBuilder is now largely forgotten by many employers. Foote Partners CEO
> David Foote says PowerBuilder is one of several programming languages in
> long-term decline, including Hewlett-Packard's variant on the Unix language,
> HP-UX, Perl, and C. IT workers skilled in these declining languages have
> seen their pay levels drop by 11 percent or more in the past 12 months,
> according to Foote Partners' latest survey. Foote says C is not going to go
> away because it is widely used in embedded devices, but there is no need for
> businesses to have someone write applications in C. Even some newer IT
> skills are already finding themselves less and less in demand. For example,
> Wireless Markup Language (WML), which became popular about eight years ago
> as a way of creating mobile Internet sites that could be viewed by early
> mobile browsers, is already in decline. Over the last 12 months, as mobile
> devices continue to become more powerful, the market value of WML skills has
> dropped 12.5 percent. Another popular skill that is fading away is Novell
> Netware, which has since been overwhelmed by the rapid rise of Microsoft
> Windows, which comes with built-in networking. Foote says that demand for
> Microsoft and open source skills are on long-term upward trends, and notes
> that year-on-year comparisons can be influenced by short-term supply trends.
>
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From melo at co.sapo.pt  Mon Oct 27 05:24:01 2008
From: melo at co.sapo.pt (Pedro Melo)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:24:01 +0000
Subject: [Porto-pm] =?iso-8859-1?q?Linguagens_em_decl=EDnio?=
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Ol?,

On Oct 27, 2008, at 11:42 AM, S?rgio Camacho wrote:

> O que acham disto?

Acho que ? mais um artigo na longa serie de artigos "X is  
dead" (replace X with your favorite lang).

Relativamente ao C, j? passei pessoalmente por:

  * C is dead, C++ will rule;
  * C and C++ is dead, Java will rule;

A realidade ? que o pr?prio JDK, o perl, ruby, python et al, s?o todos  
escritos numa linguagem: C ou C++.

Dai que a n?o ser que essas linguagens deixem de ser compiladas a  
partir de c?digo fonte, C e C++ n?o v?o a lado nenhum.

Quanto ao Perl. Para mim ser? sempre o "hidden dragon". N?o se fala  
nele, mas est? em todo o lado a fazer trabalho critico. Tem uma imagem  
muito apagada, mas todos os dias vejo entre 30 a 40 modulos a  
aparecerem no CPAN. N?o conhe?o outro reposit?rio de software que  
tenha essa vida.

Mesmo que o Perl seja o Cobol da gera??o 2030-2050 (sensivelmente a  
idade onde v?o buscar pessoas j? reformadas como eu para limpar c?digo  
antigo), acho que tenho trabalho para o resto da vida e consigo com  
ele pagar tudo o que preciso e do que os meus dois filhos precisam.

Quanto ao payrate: acho que vais ver que o pay rate de todas as  
linguagens vai levar um tombo :).

Dito isto, saber apenas a linguagem da moda (seja ela Perl, Java,  
Ruby, JavaScript) nunca ? boa ideia. Ficas mais vulneravel. Eu  
pessoalmente sei C, Perl, shell muito bem, tenho aprendido muito de  
JavaScritp, e safo-me se for preciso em Ruby. Tenho sempre ? m?o uns  
livros de erlang para o caso de ser necess?rio. E como pr?xima  
linguagem, provavelmente Perl6.

Int?,

>
>
> Skills in Ancient Languages Valued Less
> Financial Times Digital Business (10/22/08) P. 5; Nairn, Geoff
>
> Some IT skills, while clearly not dead yet, are certainly being put  
> out to pasture. For example, the once-hot fourth-generation  
> programming language PowerBuilder is now largely forgotten by many  
> employers. Foote Partners CEO David Foote says PowerBuilder is one  
> of several programming languages in long-term decline, including  
> Hewlett-Packard's variant on the Unix language, HP-UX, Perl, and C.  
> IT workers skilled in these declining languages have seen their pay  
> levels drop by 11 percent or more in the past 12 months, according  
> to Foote Partners' latest survey. Foote says C is not going to go  
> away because it is widely used in embedded devices, but there is no  
> need for businesses to have someone write applications in C. Even  
> some newer IT skills are already finding themselves less and less in  
> demand. For example, Wireless Markup Language (WML), which became  
> popular about eight years ago as a way of creating mobile Internet  
> sites that could be viewed by early mobile browsers, is already in  
> decline. Over the last 12 months, as mobile devices continue to  
> become more powerful, the market value of WML skills has dropped  
> 12.5 percent. Another popular skill that is fading away is Novell  
> Netware, which has since been overwhelmed by the rapid rise of  
> Microsoft Windows, which comes with built-in networking. Foote says  
> that demand for Microsoft and open source skills are on long-term  
> upward trends, and notes that year-on-year comparisons can be  
> influenced by short-term supply trends.
> View Full Article | Return to Headlines
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From albie at alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt  Mon Oct 27 10:05:29 2008
From: albie at alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Alberto_Sim=F5es?=)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:05:29 +0000
Subject: [Porto-pm] =?iso-8859-1?q?Linguagens_em_decl=EDnio?=
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Ignorancia!

S?rgio Camacho wrote:
> O que acham disto?
> 
> 
> **
> 
> *
> *
> 
> *Skills in Ancient Languages Valued Less*
> /Financial Times Digital Business (10/22/08) P. 5; Nairn, Geoff/
> 
> Some IT skills, while clearly not dead yet, are certainly being put out 
> to pasture. For example, the once-hot fourth-generation programming 
> language PowerBuilder is now largely forgotten by many employers. Foote 
> Partners CEO David Foote says PowerBuilder is one of several programming 
> languages in long-term decline, including Hewlett-Packard's variant on 
> the Unix language, HP-UX, Perl, and C. IT workers skilled in these 
> declining languages have seen their pay levels drop by 11 percent or 
> more in the past 12 months, according to Foote Partners' latest survey. 
> Foote says C is not going to go away because it is widely used in 
> embedded devices, but there is no need for businesses to have someone 
> write applications in C. Even some newer IT skills are already finding 
> themselves less and less in demand. For example, Wireless Markup 
> Language (WML), which became popular about eight years ago as a way of 
> creating mobile Internet sites that could be viewed by early mobile 
> browsers, is already in decline. Over the last 12 months, as mobile 
> devices continue to become more powerful, the market value of WML skills 
> has dropped 12.5 percent. Another popular skill that is fading away is 
> Novell Netware, which has since been overwhelmed by the rapid rise of 
> Microsoft Windows, which comes with built-in networking. Foote says that 
> demand for Microsoft and open source skills are on long-term upward 
> trends, and notes that year-on-year comparisons can be influenced by 
> short-term supply trends.
> 
> View Full Article 
> <http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto102120081037527538> 
> | Return to Headlines <#top>
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
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                  Campus de Gualtar - 4710-057 Braga - Portugal

From paulo at novisnet.pt  Mon Oct 27 10:10:08 2008
From: paulo at novisnet.pt (Paulo A Ferreira)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:10:08 +0000
Subject: [Porto-pm] =?iso-8859-1?q?Linguagens_em_decl=EDnio?=
In-Reply-To: <4905F4D9.1030208@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt>
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Que linguagens ensinam na UM globalmente nestes dias?

Paulo

Alberto Sim?es wrote:
> Ignorancia!
> 
> S?rgio Camacho wrote:
>> O que acham disto?
>>
>>
>> **
>>
>> *
>> *
>>
>> *Skills in Ancient Languages Valued Less*
>> /Financial Times Digital Business (10/22/08) P. 5; Nairn, Geoff/
>>
>> Some IT skills, while clearly not dead yet, are certainly being put
>> out to pasture. For example, the once-hot fourth-generation
>> programming language PowerBuilder is now largely forgotten by many
>> employers. Foote Partners CEO David Foote says PowerBuilder is one of
>> several programming languages in long-term decline, including
>> Hewlett-Packard's variant on the Unix language, HP-UX, Perl, and C. IT
>> workers skilled in these declining languages have seen their pay
>> levels drop by 11 percent or more in the past 12 months, according to
>> Foote Partners' latest survey. Foote says C is not going to go away
>> because it is widely used in embedded devices, but there is no need
>> for businesses to have someone write applications in C. Even some
>> newer IT skills are already finding themselves less and less in
>> demand. For example, Wireless Markup Language (WML), which became
>> popular about eight years ago as a way of creating mobile Internet
>> sites that could be viewed by early mobile browsers, is already in
>> decline. Over the last 12 months, as mobile devices continue to become
>> more powerful, the market value of WML skills has dropped 12.5
>> percent. Another popular skill that is fading away is Novell Netware,
>> which has since been overwhelmed by the rapid rise of Microsoft
>> Windows, which comes with built-in networking. Foote says that demand
>> for Microsoft and open source skills are on long-term upward trends,
>> and notes that year-on-year comparisons can be influenced by
>> short-term supply trends.
>>
>> View Full Article
>> <http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto102120081037527538>
>> | Return to Headlines <#top>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Porto-pm mailing list
>> Porto-pm at pm.org
>> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/porto-pm
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From albie at alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt  Mon Oct 27 10:23:14 2008
From: albie at alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Alberto_Sim=F5es?=)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:23:14 +0000
Subject: [Porto-pm] =?iso-8859-1?q?Linguagens_em_decl=EDnio?=
In-Reply-To: <4905F5F0.4080700@novisnet.pt>
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1o semestre: Haskell
2o semestre: C
3o semestre: Prolog
4o semestre: Java

E estou a ensinar Perl no mestrado de Engenharia de Linguagens.

Abra?os
Alberto

Paulo A Ferreira wrote:
> Que linguagens ensinam na UM globalmente nestes dias?
> 
> Paulo
> 
> Alberto Sim?es wrote:
>> Ignorancia!
>>
>> S?rgio Camacho wrote:
>>> O que acham disto?
>>>
>>>
>>> **
>>>
>>> *
>>> *
>>>
>>> *Skills in Ancient Languages Valued Less*
>>> /Financial Times Digital Business (10/22/08) P. 5; Nairn, Geoff/
>>>
>>> Some IT skills, while clearly not dead yet, are certainly being put
>>> out to pasture. For example, the once-hot fourth-generation
>>> programming language PowerBuilder is now largely forgotten by many
>>> employers. Foote Partners CEO David Foote says PowerBuilder is one of
>>> several programming languages in long-term decline, including
>>> Hewlett-Packard's variant on the Unix language, HP-UX, Perl, and C. IT
>>> workers skilled in these declining languages have seen their pay
>>> levels drop by 11 percent or more in the past 12 months, according to
>>> Foote Partners' latest survey. Foote says C is not going to go away
>>> because it is widely used in embedded devices, but there is no need
>>> for businesses to have someone write applications in C. Even some
>>> newer IT skills are already finding themselves less and less in
>>> demand. For example, Wireless Markup Language (WML), which became
>>> popular about eight years ago as a way of creating mobile Internet
>>> sites that could be viewed by early mobile browsers, is already in
>>> decline. Over the last 12 months, as mobile devices continue to become
>>> more powerful, the market value of WML skills has dropped 12.5
>>> percent. Another popular skill that is fading away is Novell Netware,
>>> which has since been overwhelmed by the rapid rise of Microsoft
>>> Windows, which comes with built-in networking. Foote says that demand
>>> for Microsoft and open source skills are on long-term upward trends,
>>> and notes that year-on-year comparisons can be influenced by
>>> short-term supply trends.
>>>
>>> View Full Article
>>> <http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto102120081037527538>
>>> | Return to Headlines <#top>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Porto-pm mailing list
>>> Porto-pm at pm.org
>>> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/porto-pm
> 
> 

-- 
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                  Campus de Gualtar - 4710-057 Braga - Portugal

From tfpedroso at gmail.com  Mon Oct 27 10:50:12 2008
From: tfpedroso at gmail.com (Tiago Faro Pedroso)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:50:12 +0000
Subject: [Porto-pm] =?utf-8?q?Linguagens_em_decl=C3=ADnio?=
In-Reply-To: <4905F902.3060802@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt>
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<ironia>? bom saber q a UM permanece na vanguarda </ironia>

Gostei bastante da cadeira obrigat?ria 'aplica??es em rede' na FCUP,  
mas compreendo que seja desnecess?ria para os alunos da U Vinho... ;)

Tiago Faro Pedroso
tfpedroso at gmail.com

On 2008/10/27, at 17:23, Alberto Sim?es  
<albie at alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt> wrote:

> 1o semestre: Haskell
> 2o semestre: C
> 3o semestre: Prolog
> 4o semestre: Java
>
> E estou a ensinar Perl no mestrado de Engenharia de Linguagens.
>
> Abra?os
> Alberto
>
> Paulo A Ferreira wrote:
>> Que linguagens ensinam na UM globalmente nestes dias?
>> Paulo
>> Alberto Sim?es wrote:
>>> Ignorancia!
>>>
>>> S?rgio Camacho wrote:
>>>> O que acham disto?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> **
>>>>
>>>> *
>>>> *
>>>>
>>>> *Skills in Ancient Languages Valued Less*
>>>> /Financial Times Digital Business (10/22/08) P. 5; Nairn, Geoff/
>>>>
>>>> Some IT skills, while clearly not dead yet, are certainly being put
>>>> out to pasture. For example, the once-hot fourth-generation
>>>> programming language PowerBuilder is now largely forgotten by many
>>>> employers. Foote Partners CEO David Foote says PowerBuilder is  
>>>> one of
>>>> several programming languages in long-term decline, including
>>>> Hewlett-Packard's variant on the Unix language, HP-UX, Perl, and  
>>>> C. IT
>>>> workers skilled in these declining languages have seen their pay
>>>> levels drop by 11 percent or more in the past 12 months,  
>>>> according to
>>>> Foote Partners' latest survey. Foote says C is not going to go away
>>>> because it is widely used in embedded devices, but there is no need
>>>> for businesses to have someone write applications in C. Even some
>>>> newer IT skills are already finding themselves less and less in
>>>> demand. For example, Wireless Markup Language (WML), which became
>>>> popular about eight years ago as a way of creating mobile Internet
>>>> sites that could be viewed by early mobile browsers, is already in
>>>> decline. Over the last 12 months, as mobile devices continue to  
>>>> become
>>>> more powerful, the market value of WML skills has dropped 12.5
>>>> percent. Another popular skill that is fading away is Novell  
>>>> Netware,
>>>> which has since been overwhelmed by the rapid rise of Microsoft
>>>> Windows, which comes with built-in networking. Foote says that  
>>>> demand
>>>> for Microsoft and open source skills are on long-term upward  
>>>> trends,
>>>> and notes that year-on-year comparisons can be influenced by
>>>> short-term supply trends.
>>>>
>>>> View Full Article
>>>> <http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto102120081037527538 
>>>> >
>>>> | Return to Headlines <#top>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --- 
>>>> --- 
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
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>                 Campus de Gualtar - 4710-057 Braga - Portugal
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From albie at alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt  Mon Oct 27 10:52:52 2008
From: albie at alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt (=?UTF-8?B?QWxiZXJ0byBTaW3DtWVz?=)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:52:52 +0000
Subject: [Porto-pm] =?utf-8?q?Linguagens_em_decl=C3=ADnio?=
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Este pessoal n?o deixa fazer nada de jeito :-S

Tiago Faro Pedroso wrote:
> <ironia>? bom saber q a UM permanece na vanguarda </ironia>
> 
> Gostei bastante da cadeira obrigat?ria 'aplica??es em rede' na FCUP, mas 
> compreendo que seja desnecess?ria para os alunos da U Vinho... ;)
> 
> Tiago Faro Pedroso
> tfpedroso at gmail.com
> 
> On 2008/10/27, at 17:23, Alberto Sim?es <albie at alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt> 
> wrote:
> 
>> 1o semestre: Haskell
>> 2o semestre: C
>> 3o semestre: Prolog
>> 4o semestre: Java
>>
>> E estou a ensinar Perl no mestrado de Engenharia de Linguagens.
>>
>> Abra?os
>> Alberto
>>
>> Paulo A Ferreira wrote:
>>> Que linguagens ensinam na UM globalmente nestes dias?
>>> Paulo
>>> Alberto Sim?es wrote:
>>>> Ignorancia!
>>>>
>>>> S?rgio Camacho wrote:
>>>>> O que acham disto?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> **
>>>>>
>>>>> *
>>>>> *
>>>>>
>>>>> *Skills in Ancient Languages Valued Less*
>>>>> /Financial Times Digital Business (10/22/08) P. 5; Nairn, Geoff/
>>>>>
>>>>> Some IT skills, while clearly not dead yet, are certainly being put
>>>>> out to pasture. For example, the once-hot fourth-generation
>>>>> programming language PowerBuilder is now largely forgotten by many
>>>>> employers. Foote Partners CEO David Foote says PowerBuilder is one of
>>>>> several programming languages in long-term decline, including
>>>>> Hewlett-Packard's variant on the Unix language, HP-UX, Perl, and C. IT
>>>>> workers skilled in these declining languages have seen their pay
>>>>> levels drop by 11 percent or more in the past 12 months, according to
>>>>> Foote Partners' latest survey. Foote says C is not going to go away
>>>>> because it is widely used in embedded devices, but there is no need
>>>>> for businesses to have someone write applications in C. Even some
>>>>> newer IT skills are already finding themselves less and less in
>>>>> demand. For example, Wireless Markup Language (WML), which became
>>>>> popular about eight years ago as a way of creating mobile Internet
>>>>> sites that could be viewed by early mobile browsers, is already in
>>>>> decline. Over the last 12 months, as mobile devices continue to become
>>>>> more powerful, the market value of WML skills has dropped 12.5
>>>>> percent. Another popular skill that is fading away is Novell Netware,
>>>>> which has since been overwhelmed by the rapid rise of Microsoft
>>>>> Windows, which comes with built-in networking. Foote says that demand
>>>>> for Microsoft and open source skills are on long-term upward trends,
>>>>> and notes that year-on-year comparisons can be influenced by
>>>>> short-term supply trends.
>>>>>
>>>>> View Full Article
>>>>> <http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto102120081037527538> 
>>>>>
>>>>> | Return to Headlines <#top>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>>>>>
>>>>>
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Alberto Sim?es - Departamento de Inform?tica - Universidade do Minho
                  Campus de Gualtar - 4710-057 Braga - Portugal