Monday, June 4th 2007
Top 10 dead/dying PC skills listed
ComputerWorld has done some research, and compiled a very interesting list of the PC skills that currently have little or no demand. Here is a very shortened version of that list. Please check the source link for the full version of the list with a much better explanation of, well, everything.
First place: Cobol.
Cobol is a very old programming language that saw a quick spike during the Y2K paranoia. However, since then, Cobol has been slowly on the way out, Universities no longer teach it, and rarely anyone uses it.
Second place: Nonrelational DBMS.
DBMS is an old database protocol, sort of like MySQL. MySQL is in fact one of the database protocols that replaced DBMS.
Third place: Networks without IP addresses.
This one's self explanatory. Back in the late 1980's/early 1990's, corporations thought it would be a sweet idea to put their computers on networks without IP addresses. Considering that a computer's IP address is like a regular mailing address, networks sans IP kinda bit the dust.
4: CC:Mail, the classic store-and-forward E-mail system of the 1980's.
5: ColdFusion, another forgotten programming language.
6: C/C++ programming, which is used by high school programming teachers as a torture device.
7: Powerbuilder, yet another forgotten programming language.
8: Netware engineers, who did stuff with the programming platform Netware. Netware was a great programming platform right until Microsoft unleashed NT. All Netware programmers got certified in and switched over to NT within 2 years.
9: PC Network administrators, who's role is becoming automated by very smart and easy to configure/use Windows servers.
10: OS/2, a joint attempt to make an operating system by IBM and Microsoft. It's been an almost unheard of operating system with a very small group of dedicated users, and was officially discontinued in 2005.
Source:
ComputerWorld
First place: Cobol.
Cobol is a very old programming language that saw a quick spike during the Y2K paranoia. However, since then, Cobol has been slowly on the way out, Universities no longer teach it, and rarely anyone uses it.
Second place: Nonrelational DBMS.
DBMS is an old database protocol, sort of like MySQL. MySQL is in fact one of the database protocols that replaced DBMS.
Third place: Networks without IP addresses.
This one's self explanatory. Back in the late 1980's/early 1990's, corporations thought it would be a sweet idea to put their computers on networks without IP addresses. Considering that a computer's IP address is like a regular mailing address, networks sans IP kinda bit the dust.
4: CC:Mail, the classic store-and-forward E-mail system of the 1980's.
5: ColdFusion, another forgotten programming language.
6: C/C++ programming, which is used by high school programming teachers as a torture device.
7: Powerbuilder, yet another forgotten programming language.
8: Netware engineers, who did stuff with the programming platform Netware. Netware was a great programming platform right until Microsoft unleashed NT. All Netware programmers got certified in and switched over to NT within 2 years.
9: PC Network administrators, who's role is becoming automated by very smart and easy to configure/use Windows servers.
10: OS/2, a joint attempt to make an operating system by IBM and Microsoft. It's been an almost unheard of operating system with a very small group of dedicated users, and was officially discontinued in 2005.
33 Comments on Top 10 dead/dying PC skills listed
-Steve Ballmer.
there.
However I think the #1 fading PC skill is this... Modding.
No, not the ZOMG LEET WINDOW IN YOUR PC modding.
I'm talking electrical engineer type modding, volt modding your GPU.
Theres a lot of people that can Vmod, but not many that know how to FIND a vmod ;)
We also use around 30-40 OS/2 machines at work.. and probably will until... well.. forever...
They are here at the TPU:toast:
and unforunatly not on tpu but i'm sure wiz(if he wanted to could translate better than google hint hint wink wink:D)
www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/voltmods/143
www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm
Just look at junes TPC index.
C is not dead yet.
#include <stdio.h>
main
{
printf ("wowomg.com rocks! Visit it!\n");
Goto Main
}
It just needs alot of spacing, brackets, etc.
But sometimes you don't even need the formatting! (Lots of subvarieties around...)