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Which Programming Languages are you using?

Survey period: 28 Sep 2020 to 5 Oct 2020

For work or play, which of the following are you currently using, plan to use, or have used in your recent past?

Option	Votes	%
Assembly	139	11.08
C	311	24.78
C++	431	34.34
C#	815	64.94
Dart	20	1.59
Delphi, Modula or Pascal	98	7.81
Go	34	2.71
Java	217	17.29
JavaScript	519	41.35
Kotlin	45	3.59
Lua	38	3.03
Powershell, bash, and any shell script	291	23.19
PHP	160	12.75
Python	278	22.15
R	38	3.03
Ruby	19	1.51
Scala	14	1.12
Swift or Objective-C	43	3.43
SQL (and variants)	621	49.48
TypeScript	182	14.50
Visual Basic / VB.NET	349	27.81
Bonus: FORTRAN or COBOL	70	5.58
Other	173	13.78
Responses	1,255
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%

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Yay! We still have a FORTRAN / COBOL programmer! OriginalGriff28-Sep-20 8:44 OriginalGriff 28-Sep-20 8:44  And it's not me ... I'm not sure if I should envy or pity you. Envy because you probably have serious job security since you are pretty much irreplaceable for legacy systems, but pity because you're pretty much irreplaceable for legacy systems ... So you don't get much else. "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower! Re: Yay! We still have a FORTRAN / COBOL programmer!   Forogar  28-Sep-20 9:05   Forogar   28-Sep-20 9:05  One of them is me. I used to do FORTRAN IV and Fortran-77 a lot (I liked it). I also had to do a little COBOL and now, again, I have had to do some COBOL (reading the source code only) to fix a problem with the mainframe part of one of our systems. Happily I do C# mostly - my favourite language. It used to be Rexx but now it's definitely C#. - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code. Re: Yay! We still have a FORTRAN / COBOL programmer! Chris Maunder28-Sep-20 10:01 Chris Maunder 28-Sep-20 10:01  I haven't recently done any FORTRAN so I've had to recluse myself from this option. However, I was *this* close to having to do some recently (long story, requires beer) cheers Chris Maunder Re: Yay! We still have a FORTRAN / COBOL programmer! agolddog29-Sep-20 3:40 agolddog 29-Sep-20 3:40  Re: Yay! We still have a FORTRAN / COBOL programmer! tvenier29-Sep-20 0:39 tvenier 29-Sep-20 0:39  Natural/ADABAS? Re: Yay! We still have a FORTRAN / COBOL programmer! MKJCP29-Sep-20 1:38 MKJCP 29-Sep-20 1:38  Envy me because I retire soon and pity my employer? (Fortran, but I get some C# time too) Re: Yay! We still have a FORTRAN / COBOL programmer! Matt Bond29-Sep-20 3:49 Matt Bond 29-Sep-20 3:49  We have a desktop application that is commercially sold to businesses. It uses COBOL for much of it's older processing of binary data storage files. Then we have Delphi for a front end. And then we use C# for all the new stuff (integrations, new features, etc.), which requires a COM interface with the Delphi. We actually embed the C# UI into the Delphi UI via OLE. Fun! Bond Keep all things a simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere Re: Yay! We still have a FORTRAN / COBOL programmer! jsc421-Oct-20 5:58 jsc42 1-Oct-20 5:58  I'm still in the BCS FORTRAN SIG (in fact it is the only BCS SIG that I am a member of) but it looks very foreign to me as it has changed a lot since I last used it, probably at the end of the last millennium. It was my first High Level Language (early 1970s) and it was also how I met my wife (she had to learn it at Uni and was struggling, so I was called in to help). Suffice to say, she passed and we've just celebrated our 40th Wedding Anniversary.

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