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The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills

computerworld.com — This is a good list of skills to avoid if you're choosing a career in IT, or at least a benchmark for upgrading your skills level. While some of the jobs, such as Cobol programming are what you'd expect to see, others, like PC network admins were more surprising to me.

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  • thetvremote, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Saying ColdFusion is dead is just plain ignorant. The article exposes Mary Brandel's lack of journalistic integrity by not researching ColdFusion before her article. If she would have, she would know that its not dead and that ColdFusion developers are many and are employed making good money.
  • Trendecide, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Buried simply due to your complete lack of education on the subject. ColdFusion is in fact one of the fastest growing languages on the planet... you'll find the next version of .NET bloating features into the language simply to keep up with the likes of ColdFusion. With ColdFusion 8 on the horizon, it's more like the language has been born again.
  • adrocknaphobia, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Buried. Sensational article not based on any metrics or real data.
  • jyoseph, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Forta got it right: http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/5/25/Todays-Irresponsible-Journalism-Award-Goes-To-Mary-Brandel

    Burried
  • oreilly, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1buried for not having a clue about ColdFusion. she could have even walked down the hall and just asked her fellow IDG (IDGEntertainment.com) colleagues to get the real poop on CF.

    obviously a fluff piece...
  • aseem73, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1So Buried. Coldfusion with Flex, rocks and rules.
  • stewsnooze, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Mary Brandel doesn't seem qualified to comment on computer related subjects.
  • joedanz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Mary Brandel should have her job credentials seriously checked. I think the editors are just as much to blame for taking advice and trends on programming languages from someone who shows obvious ignorance on the subject. I am a computer science major who has spent the last 12 years of my life in front of a screen writing code. I have experience with multiple languages, and there is none that even comes close to the ease of use and rapid application development of ColdFusion. The language is alive and well, and the improvements in the new version 8 (Scorpio) are just AMAZING!!! ColdFusion was, is, and hopefully will always be at the forefront of web application technologies.
  • blackc2004, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Die COBOL.. DIE!
  • garygfx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Give a chimp a typewriter and this is what they come up with. Impressive that the chimp eventually learnt how to form real words and not a random serious of letters, but, predictably, the content was beyond what the chimp understands. No banana for you. Okay, let the penguins have a go now. Ooh, too late - looks like the crocodile has eaten the chimp and the typewriter. Buried by Digg. Good.
  • dah007, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Buried. Wrong about ColdFusion, wrong in general.
  • inquiry12868, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0VSAM still holds over 60% of the data kept in the world...figures touted by IBM....last time I checked VSAM was a non-relational data base. Why are companies still using it? Performance!
  • rmason, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Three national conferences and frequent releases of new versions, does that sound like a dying product to you? They have lost all credibility with me.
  • inquiry12868, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Hi, IBM was touting 5-BILLION lines of new COBOL code being written annually and 200 BILLION lines of COBOL code in 'production' today; this material was presented at the IBM Impact 2007 Conference...last month (4200+ people there).....this information was stated orally and included in several slides at several presentations.
  • bigmadkev, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Has anyone emailed her, to ask for reasons on the cf comment? or has she been listening to NA?
  • raowen, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0This is an obvious attempt to draw readers. The whole article is ludicrous. There seems not to have been any actual research done before printing.
  • prk166, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0I think there is plenty of room for debate of ColdFusion. But how can anyone who would claim to be a journalist claim that Python is somehow not dead compared to CF? No offense to python; no offense to RoR but they have a long way to go before they reach CF's level. And Python has, IIRC, been around longer than CF. Than again, it's not really a web language.... and doesn't that just make you wonder what she was thinking of anything when putting CF on the list?

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