Programming languages

[Murph]

This is interesting Python is #1, followed by "C" THEN C++.  Rust is #20 but everyone was talking about Rust earlier.  Maybe when they went woke and started adding all sorts of stupid restrictions to the use of Rust it is going to deservedly die.

[sunday]

Fortran is still used???

[Murph]

Yep, and oddly enough COBOL is still out there, and many COBOL using companies are screaming for programmers to help transfer COBOL legacy code to something more modern.  

[Ivanhoe]

Yeah, tons of legacy Fortran out there, plus some organizations found out the hard way that your average engineer needs guard rails, safety belts, etc. 

The trend here in the States back around the turn of the century was to have engineers prototype things out in Matlab, then hand the Matlab files to a full-time programmer to implement in C/C++. The suits eventually figured out that was much more expensive than just having the engineers write Fortran.

Same thing going on now with Python, but fortunately Python has enough inter-language library capability that a clean, simple Python program can call LINPACK etc. pretty painlessly. Or NumPy. 

I am skeptical of the infographic. More use of Kotlin than R? I'm calling BS on that. Abotu 5% of my students are either learning R or already using it for graduate classes. I've never once had a student mention Kotlin.

I also a bit skeptical of the relative positions of Java vice C#. 

 

 

[Murph]

I never heard of kotlin.  R is another one I had heard about but have never seen.   How about Ada?  You are totally correct on Fortran though.  Python is apparently a love or despise it language.