[mm89]

Perhaps this is an effect of learning to program in the 2010s, but paying for a programming language (Java, PHP) sounds crazy to me.

Do people actually do this?

[tombert]

It's not terribly common anymore, but people used to pay for the Coldfusion programming language...well at least a compiler/interpreter for it. Outside of some third-party things like OpenBluedragon and Railo, if you wanted to deploy Coldfusion in any capacity, you had to pay Macromedia/Adobe for a license.

I don't know of any companies that are still using Coldfusion and I haven't had to touch it since 2012 (thank god), but it certainly was a common thing for awhile.

[rstupek]

Yes you used to have to pay for your development tools (borland was a big player in the space). Even microsoft tools weren't free

[somurzakov]

Visual Studio Enterprise is expensive as hell and C# is the king of the enterprise, together with Java which runs on enterprise Oracle App servers

[whatsmyusername]

Those are the words a company can use to make me instantly turn down a position. Are you reading directly from the noperonomicon?

[Leherenn]

Embedded compilers/IDE as well.

[nexuist]

LabView is really popular in physical engineering circles and it costs over $5,000 per copy.

[mattmar96]

MatLab