Re: maintaining skills -- MIDRANGE-JOBS

I sent this to the tiobe.com survey....
I would not bank my career on this survey of languages.
I did my own quick survey at dice.com (technology job postings).
There are 268 RPG openings, far more than pascal(25)  or idl (25) which both
made the list.
I did send tiobe.com a slight rant as to why i think google searches is not
a scientifically valid study.
jim franz
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Liotta" <qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <MIDRANGE-JOBS@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 7:57 PM
Subject: Re: maintaining skills


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> 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 >.)
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> 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
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> 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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