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There's also the fact that older doesn't necessarily mean outdated or unused. There are still many jobs out there that require XML, XSD, XSLT, JSP, etc. Organi
by adrianhoward 13y ago
There's also the fact that older doesn't necessarily mean outdated or unused. There are still many jobs out there that require XML, XSD, XSLT, JSP, etc.
Organisations have software that's been around for many years, in many instances decades. Curiously they don't rewrite everything just because COBOL or Java or C++ or whatever has become unfashionable among some portions of the dev world ;-)
- ponyous 13y agoAs I wrote in original post: "I'm not saying anything of this is useless but I think priorities should be somewhat different"
- adrianhoward 13y agoWhy? Genuine question ;-) What utility value will you get out of PHP rather than Java? Why should priorities favour the PHP over Java, or C, or Lisp, or whatever? I still have this vain hope that folk will get back to teaching programming - rather than specific programming languages. During my degree back in 1988-91 we built non-trivial programs in all of: Pop-11 (yes - nobody has heard of this ;-), Prolog, Lisp, ML, Modula-2, C, plus some stack-based assembler whose name escapes me at the moment. Not to mention trivial playing Smalltalk, Occam, shell scripting and probably others that I've forgotten. And this wasn't even a straight CS degree! Sometime between now and then the universities started chucking out people who were just taught Java, or Python, or some other single-language. Sigh. I seem to have ranted a little off-topic... I'll shush now ;-) Sometime