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guidance for a disillusioned CS major

Name: Anonymous 2010-10-29 15:02

Hello, /prog/.  My university's CS curriculum, in terms of languages, consists of Java and C++.  I have a copy of SICP and I'm working my way through it.  Is there a market for anything other than curly-bracket languages these days, or will I never be able to (define myownpath) in anything other than writing Free Software in my spare time?

Name: Anonymous 2010-10-29 20:49

>>20
There's plenty of work for COBOL, unfortunately (at least where I live), and PHP is full of shitty programmers, extensions and libraries or frameworks, but in the right hands it can be a passable language - for a mid tier, of course.

Here are some examples:

God tier: Lisp, Clojure, Haskell, Prolog, Erlang
High tier: Python, Ruby, Scala
Mid tier: Perl, PHP, Tcl
Low tier: Objective-C, C#, VB.NET
Shit tier: Java, C, C++, COBOL, Pascal, BASIC

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