[Porto-pm] Linguagens em declínio

[Paulo A Ferreira]

Que linguagens ensinam na UM globalmente nestes dias?

Paulo

Alberto Simões wrote:
> Ignorancia!
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> Sérgio Camacho wrote:
>> O que acham disto?
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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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