Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:03:29 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
> This is very misleading. Java has a high mark because the Java language is
> (other than for curiosities sake) the only language used on the Java
> platform.
>
Here's some information in the survey that is not misleading:
Although Java, C, and PHP, and Perl have slightly fallen in popularity
over the past year, C++ has virtually stagnated, Ruby is rising
(figures, got a lot of attention in '06) and VB is rising. I think
it's safe to say VB in '06 is VB.NET. Unless one still writes legacy
code for Office apps.
And interesting to me is the C# has slipped and traded places with
Python. C# losing ground..... now, wasn't that language some big deal a
few years ago? Seems to be sliding in a downward direction lately
after some 4% peak about a year ago....
> Unfortunately, this survey doesn't break down languages by platform. Many
> of the languages (such as C++ and Python) can run on .NET. They don't
> break out VB versus VB.NET either, which are essentially totally different
> languages. The same with Delphi, in which later versions target the .NET
> runtime.
> I think it would be more enlightening to see which platforms have the most
> interest.
I think the point is that Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and C are all
OSS. I can get a compiler or interpreter for Windows, Linux, or Unix.
Charge to me - $0. Believe me, I am not saying that the compile or the
script would be 100% portable across these platforms. But I have
worked on several PHP and Java projects where you can tinker in Windows
and deploy on Linux.... developers may think that's a "nice to have".
If the app is VB or C#, I am limited to Windows. If a customer wanted
to scale my app onto a Unix or Linux server, I'd be in quite a pickle.
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