[Porto-pm] Linguagens em declínio

[Alberto Simões]

Ignorancia!

Sérgio Camacho wrote:
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> *Skills in Ancient Languages Valued Less*
> /Financial Times Digital Business (10/22/08) P. 5; Nairn, Geoff/
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> 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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Alberto Simões - Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho
                  Campus de Gualtar - 4710-057 Braga - Portugal