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Google Lat Long Blog: Your World in 3D, now in more languages

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Foursquare Adds Five New Languages To App, Big Focus On API This Year

In an on-stage announcement at Mobile World Congress, Foursquare founder and CEO Denis Crowley said the location-based startup had added five new languages to its mobile application. These are Spanish, French, German, Italian and Japanese. He said the new app (2.2.5) will be available on versions for the iPhone, Blackberry, and Android today. The analytics platform remains oriented towards the US, but Crowley said they were looking at further internationalisation. He added that they would be focusing on the API this year.

Foursquare Adds Five New Languages To App, Big Focus On API This Year

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Seven Hot Programming Languages... Including Cobol

Programmers, take note. Infoworld's Peter Wayner has done a deep think about which programming languages are hot. It's a fascinating list, and he uses some pretty interesting logic to make his point. 

A quick summary:

Python

It was good enough to be the first language available on Google's AppEngine - a clear indication Python has the kind of structure that makes it easy to scale in the cloud, one of the biggest challenges for enterprise-grade computing.

Ruby

Ruby, or more precisely the combination of Ruby with the Rails framework known as Ruby on Rails, is becoming increasingly popular for prototyping. Its entrance into the enterprise came on the heels of the Web 2.0 explosion, wherein many Web sites began as experiments in Ruby.

MATLAB

Built for mathematicians to solve systems of linear equations, MATLAB has found rising interest in the enterprise, thanks to the large volumes of data today's organizations need to analyze. Many of the more sophisticated statistical techniques that match people with advertisements, songs, or Web pages depend upon the power of algorithms like those solved by MATLAB.

JavaScript

JavaScript is not an obscure language by any means. If anything, it may be the most compiled language on Earth, if only because every browser downloads the code and recompiles it every time someone loads a Web page.

R

R is another Swiss Army Knife of numerical and statistical routines for hacking through the big data sets - collections big enough that it might be better called a Swiss Army Machete.

Erlang

Does your server need to respond to many different independent messages concurrently? Do you need to parcel these requests out to different cores or servers in various parts of the world? That's practically the definition of the hardest part of enterprise computing. Erlang, an open source language first created by scientists at Ericsson Computing Laboratory, excels at these tasks.

Cobol

Cobol jockeys today get to play with object-oriented extensions, self-modifying code, and practically every other gimmick. A recent search of Dice.com showed more than 60 jobs mentioning Cobol and 1,100 mentioning Ruby. The bulk of the jobs seemed to involve counting money (asset management) and counting doctor's visits (Health IT). While these are some of the same areas that first adopted computers for back-office processing, the work still needs to be done.

-- Don Willmott

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Which Programming Languages Are on the Rise?

Peter Wayner from InfoWorld wrote a story yesterday about the "7 Programming Languages on the Rise". Noting that the "mainstream is broad and deep," he says that most enterprise developers need to know one of the predominant programming languages, which he identifies as Java, C#, or PHP.

But he argues that a number of "niche languages" are beginning to gain in popularity.

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Wayner lists the following as up-and-comers:

1. Python
2. Ruby
3. MATLAB
4. JavaScript
5. R
6. Erlang
7. COBOL
8. CUDA Extensions

Some of these make sense: Google App Engine uses Python, for example. And we have written before at ReadWriteWeb about the increasing popularity of the open source statistical programming language R.

But, arguably, it's hard to see JavaScript, Ruby or Python as "niche" languages. And even harder perhaps to see COBOL, one of the oldest programming languages, as such - although the InfoWorld story points to a recent Dice.com search that listed 580 jobs mentioning Cobol, in comparison to the 1070 that referenced Ruby.

Do you agree with the list? If not, what languages should (or shouldn't) be on it?

And just as interesting, perhaps, what should be on the list of programming languages in decline?

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