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Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020.
Each language gets a paragraph's treatment as to why he thinks these languages are dead or dying. Those languages are:
- Visual Basic
- Objective-C
- Perl
- COBOL
- CoffeeScript
- Scala
- Lisp
Do you agree with his assessment? Are there any other language(s) you would add to the list?
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:00PM (6 children)
I've been pretty happy with salaried. I have regular pay. I have flexibility to manage my time. I have certain goals I am expected to achieve. I have very flexible work hours. Many people in my company work from home, I choose not to.
I've had a wee bit of independent contractor, because it came looking for me. It was fun and profitable. I'll stick with salaried senior developer.
If you think a fertilized egg is a child but an immigrant child is not, please don't pretend your concerns are religious
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 13 2020, @11:44AM (5 children)
It's a little easier and a lot safer, yeah. That's about all it has going for it over independent contractor though. I might feel differently about it if I had a family depending on me but probably not since I know how much work I could have if I didn't turn it down.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday March 13 2020, @05:53PM (4 children)
Safer is probably the biggest thing. Good benefits. 5 weeks paid vacation plus personal days. (Maybe that's a Canadian thing?) Profit sharing bonus plan that pays real actual money.
In a nutshell: I can't complain.
I'm not thinking about what my next gig will be. I can focus on code and other fires to put out.
If you think a fertilized egg is a child but an immigrant child is not, please don't pretend your concerns are religious
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 13 2020, @06:34PM (2 children)
If I weren't easy for me to find or create as much work as I want, I'd think up something else instead of worrying. I have too much of an engineer/coder's mindset; I think of solutions instead of worrying about what could happen. Except with actual code, strangely. Code is one thing I try to be pretty meticulous about.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday March 13 2020, @06:40PM (1 child)
I think any of us on the spectrum are detailed and meticulous.
People pay good money for that.
As long as you have enough social skills to be able to work with other people.
If you think a fertilized egg is a child but an immigrant child is not, please don't pretend your concerns are religious
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 13 2020, @10:35PM
Thankfully I never took work that required all that much in the way of social skills except when I had to hire a few folks. Ordinary old extracurricular social situations don't bug me at all and I can do professional well enough for contract work or something like SN but working with idiots who don't know they're idiots every day just ain't in my color wheel anymore.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by EETech1 on Saturday March 14 2020, @12:46AM
I'm making more in one day than I made in a week being salaried. I was even non-exempt, so I made overtime.
I'm making enough for 4 weeks paid vacation for every week I work.
If it takes me a month or two to find more work, I'll consider it vacation, and just roll with it.
I'm at the point where I have to turn down business. I have two machines that customers want, I just can't commit the hours right now. I sell them cheap, but without a fixed delivery date, so I have work to do in between my work. I'm not ready to take on employees, so they get whatever time I have left over.
I can still get a couple free lunches a week from vendors, so I'm good lol