10 Dead (or Dying) Computer Skills

Friday, May. 25 2007 | Author: Dave

I found this thanks to one of the Bloggy Network blogs, LifeSpy, it is a list of computer skills that are dying or have died off. For me, this list really comes close to home, as my cousin recently finished learning Cobol, a computer language still used by the health system here in Canada.

Cobol
Non-relational DBMS
Non-IP Networks
cc:Mail
ColdFusion
C programming
PowerBuilder
Certified NetWare Engineers
PC network administrators
OS/2

The list comes from Computerworld, and you can read the full details behind each item on their site. Do you think any other skills should be added to that list or have they included something that you don’t think is dying or dead. Let me know.

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6 Responses for "10 Dead (or Dying) Computer Skills"

Soltys

May 25th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
1

C language never will be dead (or Dying)
Bloggitup

May 25th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
2

La top ten degli skill informatici morti, o moribondi…

Direttamente da Computerworld la top ten degli skill informatici ormai morti o moribondi in quanto poco ricercati nelle proposte di lavoro e poco presenti nei curricula degli studi universitari.
* Cobol
* DBMS non relazionali
* Reti Locali …
Lissy

May 25th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
3

yeah, I can program in C… well… kinda. I had lots of programming assignments in C, whether they were done well or not is another story. I got As, though only because of the curve. Pointer to a pointer to a struct *head spins*. *shrugs* maybe it’s a girl thing.
dribller

May 26th, 2007 at 2:17 am
4

C can’t die man…
Griffith

May 26th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
5

I disagree with Network Administrators. As much as Microsoft, or anyone else, can try to brag how easy they are to setup and manage, it is one of those positions which I think will never fade.

In my University we have a computer course just for network administrators, and most of them always land a job, even though we live on a very small island.
zafar

May 27th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
6

c is not dead, not yet anyway. Surprise that Coldfusion is in the list!