[Porto-pm] Linguagens em declínio

[Sérgio Camacho]

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*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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