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LOL - spolsky has some good experience in the windows/m$ world - but he has the utmost disdain for anything connected to ebcdic - narrow-minded to some degree

as the 12-steppers say - take what you like and leave the rest (12-step is not a dance for millipedes, btw)

Vern

Michael Ryan wrote:
Oh yeah...Joel on Software...sure...

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

in regard to getting a guage on the levels of usage of programming
languages, stack overflow is worth a look.
http://stackoverflow.com/tags

It is a forum where people post software questions and others answer.
Questions are tagged by language, so you can see a summary of how many
questions are being asked for each tag.

it is relatively new and run by Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software fame
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/


On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I know I haven't been around a lot, and the last time I mentioned this
the trolls appeared, but those interested in the RPG language might find
this intriguing:

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

RPG is now the 15th most popular language. I guess it dropped to 26th
last month (as I've noted, I don't really keep track) but the surge to
15th is pretty astonishing, at least to me.

Even more astonishing, though, is the fact that since the beginning of
the year, the demand for RPG has skyrocketed, relatively speaking, and
continues to trend upward. Very interesting.

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/RPG_(OS_400).html<http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/RPG_%28OS_400%29.html>

This in comparison to, say, Java, which is slowly trending down, and PHP
which is basically flat (and has been since about 2005). And while C#
still has an overall upward trend, it hasn't done very well in 2009.
Poor old Visual Basic has been on a pretty steep decline since 2008.

Hey, at least it's not Perl:

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Perl.html

Joe



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