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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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Oops! Okie dokie.
But, I would have never thought of it as a word(s) for CCC.
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Evidently, I was the only one who did. 
I first encountered those words during a 7-week stint in Bangalore and had to look them up. Lakh crore only appeared when discussing government spending. Just like trillion in the US. 
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I never thought a non-South Asian from an Anglophone country would even be aware of those words
Where did you even come across them?
Cheers,
Vikram.
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Aah, I had seen this message earlier today but after posting, I see your later message where you explained to Sandeep.
Cheers,
Vikram.
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@GregUtas
Where's the CCC?
"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!
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He's getting as bad as me - I'm not having that 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Tired, and some joints hurt, but mostly I'm OK.
Went upstairs, emptied the waste from the cat's litter tray, sorted the washing into light and dark wash, brought them downstairs, started one wash going - and I'm knackered. Takes me right back to just after the Full Covid Experience ...
And Randal got it right, again: xkcd: Immune Response[^]
"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!
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Glad you're feeling better - that cartoon is spot on.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Good to hear - go, go, you are doing great.
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I was fine for 8 hours. Then came the aching joints and a couple of hours of violent shivering then became very hot.
Today, it feels like the flu.
Never had any sort of reaction to other vaccines so was expecting to get away with it 
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Thankfully I have a robust constitution and delete it viciously...
But I thought I should purge here for all to see!
The kind of code below makes me sick to the bone... When I see it I need to immediately incinerate this try/catch never to be caught again!
try {
DoX();
}
catch (Exception ex) {
throw new Exception("Having problem Doing X!", ex);
}
And don't give me the horseradish about "but they use this opportunity to do logging and stuff". I mean this exact code above! No additional stuff!
And speaking of logging, I have seen such try/catch/logging being nested zillion of time resulting in zillion of log entry for one single exception... yuk...
All of that can surmised with this simple hypothetical dialog
Q: (Newbye Dev) How do I throw an exception in case of exception?
A: (Captain Obvious) Just don't catch the goddamn exception you donkey!
modified 29-Mar-21 22:17pm.
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