I wouldn't be mad about it, I hear there's big bucks in the arcane languages.
25The money pays for an individual's knowledge in the arcane language, rather than the fact they use it.
10There is?
Where exactly?
4It's been a while since I was told this, so not sure how true it still is, but there a was a niche but lucrative market for people who could maintain stuff in Fortran, COBOL and the like.
Because there were some critical antediluvian pieces of software in banking, big businesses, etc that some companies were terrified of having to replace one day.
I'd expect that by now most would have migrated to more common languages, but I don't really know.
12A lot of codebases in skuff like fluid mechanics, meterological models, quantum mechanics etc. are still in Fortran. Largely because there is very little to gain from rewriting the code base in some other language.
I would choose Fortran for a new project 0/10 times, but to be fair, it's a completely viable language for developing complex and computationally intensive models, and it's better to have the 1-2 new guys learn Fortran every year than to rewrite a 200k line code base in some other language that offers few or no real advantages outside of personal preference.
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My parents met in a Fortran class in college.
21Guess that's an indicator for the language being much less interesting than your parents thought each other were.
5I don't know. My dad is only slightly more interesting than a stack of punch cards, and I love him for that.
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Pity the poor bastard that gets RPG. I still have nightmares about that damned column decoder sheet.
13Are you talking about role playing games or rocket propelled grenades? And why would the latter be the topic of comp sci classes?
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At least it wasn't COBOL
10I used to laugh about COBOL, who can take it seriously, right? But now that I'm working in a larger company I can assure you that COBOL is the backbone of large industry. Aviation, finance, railway operations, insurance, you name it. We're talking software running nonstop for decades.
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this is what happens when you are hired for the first time out of school
9There could be a version of this where it hands out Bubble, Merge, Quick, and Bogo. It is, after all, the Sorting Hat :-P
7I'd be happier to be a fortran programmer than a java programmer tbh. It's a great language.
2To be honest, the first draft of this had the Shakespeare Programming Language in the last panel but the test audience (ie my co writer) had never heard about that one, so I changed it to something that wasn't necessarily bad but rather just old and no longer really in use.
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COLD FUSION
(One of those is a real ColdFusion tag. Can you guess which one?)
2The person that got brainfuck
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