Re: maintaining skills

Learning new languages has been a part of my career from the beginning. 
Interpreting graphs and tables such as this and others has not been. The 
indicated table was from "December 2004". Here's the top three from March 2005:

1 C     19.465%     +0.54%  A
2 Java  18.871%     -4.30%  A
3 C++   11.632%     -2.87%  A

Let's see... C was at 19.696% in December; it's at 19.465% in March and shows a 
change of +0.54% in March. Meanwhile, Java was at 16.332% in December; it's at 
18.871% in March and shows a -4.30% change in March. (See < 
http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index/index.htm >.)

Interesting to interpolate January and February.

Also interesting, the page above lists the next 30 languages in 'popularity'. 
RPG actually seems to be not bad.

Lost in some of this is that C, Java, C++ and quite a few other languages on 
the list are important iSeries languages. I suspect that a part of any decrease 
in RPG is accounted for by increases in other languages on iSeries. Existing 
RPG code already... ummm... exists. Not always a lot of need to write it again, 
especially if done right in the first place.

Tom Liotta


ron_adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>http://www.developer.com/lang/other/article.php/3448451
>
>Note: this is as of December 2004.
>
>Position Programming Language Ratings Change Status 
>1  C                  19.696% +1.22% A 
>2  Java               16.332% -8.68% A 
>3  C++                11.914% -5.51% A 

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