Ask HN: Java in 5 Years?

Re:Ask HN: Java in 5 Years? by Jabbles on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @05:47PM (#1892076)

Cobol programmers make a ton? Interesting, source please!

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Re:Ask HN: Java in 5 Years? by brehaut on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @05:58PM (#1892107)

If you go by these links, Java programmers (87k) equally well off as Cobol programmers (87k) and both are better off than Ruby programmers (84k). If you really want the dollars, ocaml is apparently where its at (149k)

http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=cobol+programmer&l1=&... http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=java+programmer&l1=&... http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=ruby+programmer&l1=&... http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=ocaml+programmer&l1=

Caveat: clearly this isn't science, and i don't know how the sites keywords work. might be way off base.

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Re:Ask HN: Java in 5 Years? by IHaveASolution on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @09:19PM (#1892601)

OCaml is getting that much money from quantitative finance firms &c. if you are curious. There are a not insignificant number of them that use OCaml, and it is the only time I have heard of OCaml being used.

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Re:Ask HN: Java in 5 Years? by Bigendian on Friday November 12, 2010 @07:26AM (#1897417)

OCaml is used for code verification tools too (Microsoft z3, CEA Frama-C, INRIA Coq, AbsInt Astree, Facebook pfff, ...) and for system programming a lot (Citrix Xen Toolstack, MLstate OPA, MyLife.com, MLdonkey, Unison, ...). If you have heard of OCaml only for finance, you have probably not searched enough.

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Re:Ask HN: Java in 5 Years? by mhd on Thursday November 11, 2010 @07:49AM (#1893676)

APL programmer (rarely used outside finance, too) gets you 94 kilobucks. I guess the OCaml average contains very few samples.

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