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I saw this article today (Thanks CodeProject!). Code Generation from XAML in Visual Studio is Mind-blowing Awesome - James Montemagno[^]
The level of excitement in the article about generating a method when using a property in XAML is laudable, but, IMHO, amazingly shortsighted.
Here it is 2021, and the great minds at MS are still stuck in the 1980s command line mindset and thinking far too small.
In the 1990s, Alan Cooper[^] and a few people wrote the mother of all rapid application development IDEs, which became the Visual Basic IDE, and later Visual C++ and Visual Studio IDEs. Drag and drop UI design. And it was the envy of development tool manufacturers, and often copied.
IMHO, it is embarrassing that MS no longer hires people the caliber of Alan Cooper and his team. MS has followed the road of hiring cheaper, lesser minds who cannot produce the innovation, quality, and productivity they once could.
Honestly, I look at the state of not-so-rapid application development (after 30+ years for the technology to improve) and the plethora of "command line kiddies", and I shake my head in disbelief. If Montemagno thinks that is mind-blowing, he has blinders on.
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I avoid the command line. I just send my Cobol coding sheets to the punch room and then submit the card deck. Super fast turnaround I usually get the compiler listing by the end of the following week. 
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And, praying that you haven't missed a full stop. Those were the days! 
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How many boxes of fan-fold paper does it usually take?
A moderately amusing story of the old days : In the late 1980s and early 1990s I worked for a company that made robots. It used Microsoft BASIC in ROM as the core of the robots so programs for them were written in BASIC with our motion control extensions. One guy printed it all out and it took an entire box of fan-folded paper. You could see Bill and Paul's names in it too. That listing was kept on top of a central file cabinet as a monument until the company folded.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Rick York wrote: until the company fan- folded.
FTFY.
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Remember that 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Reminds me of when they would let "user reps" design user interfaces, and then leave it up to the developers to figure out how to populate the view model required to support that particular view (which was usually a convoluted mess of unrelated entities / fields with little reference to the actual data model).
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Cp-Coder wrote: Interesting that Java is way more in demand than C#!
I have never seen a demand for Java in the job market where it was more desired by employers than C#.
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Having retired 10 years ago, I haven't had to go job hunting in years, so I wouldn't know.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Nor me
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Sure, rankings are perhaps qualitatively indicative, and, of course, any ranking has its own way of ... ranking  . TIOBE, for instance puts C at number 1 place, while Coding Dojo does not see it at all, and SO 2020 ranking puts C on 11-th place if I am not mistaken ... As always, it depends ...
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but we all notice that VB is still on the list. Some sigh, some shake their heads and still others rejoice. HAHAHAHAHA
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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The essential programming languages I need to know are those I use in my current job. Or those I'll need to learn if I happen to get a new job.
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(serious, curious)
I'm curious about Objective C, is this purely because of iPhones and Apple Tablets ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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I think the list applies to those that want to be "average".
Currently, you can make a killing doing COBOL, IMS, CICS, VSAM, etc. in major centers across N. America; many of them remote.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I'm stunned that Ruby made the list, and TypeScript did not.
All that list proves is that management is still in the dark ages, or that we have a huge codebases using antiquated languages, but then COBOL and FORTAN weren't on that list, so who knows.
Lists are pretty much useful for only one thing, and that's wiping the stuff that list rhymes with.
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Fist?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Marc Clifton wrote: I'm stunned that Ruby made the list, and TypeScript did not.
We're too busy polishing our old turds to start anything new. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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No developer needs to know ten languages at once.
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I never heard about the R language so far - and it made it in the top ten ! 
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Is SQL really a "programming language"?
Never mind the fact that the "L" in SQL stands for "language"...
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ascending ochre songbirds excited trillions (4,6)
The word lengths were originally swapped.
modified 30-Mar-21 6:57am.
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ascending songbirds larks
ochre
excited (anagram)
trillions (definition)
lakh crores Songbirds could be many, but ascending was a hint: see here[^] and here[^].
@Sandeep-Mewara, I was counting on you!
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