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Number of Jobs by Programming Language
The Viking writes "I was curious about which programming languages are hot with employers, so I did an informal search of several job search engines. The results are interesting (to me, at least). Are these numbers relevant? We can certainly debate whether or not the online job search engines are representative of the actual employment landscape."
forth use = if unemployed then
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts."
So by this we can tell that companies are first wanting to make software that can run everywhere, and third software that will run no where. Interesting indeed. Looking further at these stats we see that 4th is software no one can read after writing. Further still, 3.46%(C#) of software jobs are with companies who probly want "An XML based .net solution for a dynamicly static problem range to achieve syenergy with other units"(I don't know enough buzzwords sorry)
Happy Noodle Boy says "F###ing doughnut! Mock me? You fried cyclops!!"
...looks like the site's been slashdotted. i really am curious to know what the numbers are for QBasic.
bwahahaha!
that gorilla game kicked ass....wonder if it's been ported?
-- anthony
"I've always heard its a crappy language.. really basic (duh)"
It is.
"could explain all the crappy bug and exploit ridden software though."
Not all, but a very huge chunk of it, and that chunk is the worst of the pile. Actually every vb program ever written by anyone, anywhere, for any purpose falls in this category.
"Am I the only one that's scared because of this?"
No there are others out there.
In this light, how do we interpret the result for Smalltalk?
The same way we interpret CmdrTaco...very carefully.
Curiously, I'm now in a position to start looking for developers myself.
:-)
Uh oh, this is the worst place you could have said that. I seriously hope you haven't got your real e-mail address on your user page
mogorific carpentry experiments
See my response to the other critisism post. But in short, when I say serious programmer I mean one who has learned how to program (be it university or self-taught). Learning C++ does not mean you know how to program. Learning to program isn't about individual languages, it's about learning the basis of various categories of programming languages that your thinking of when you list languages to move to. As far as perl goes, having coded it myself. I think most perl projects would be better off if NOBODY was especially familiar with perl when coding them. Although perl is an interpreted code not a programming language.
Hey, if you're ever making 500 million dollars a year, lemme know. I'll take that job.
New poll topic! But I don't think very many would vote for Visual Basic in this site..
A few months later, in a PHB-meeting: "Apparently there's an innovative language called 'Cowboyneal' that's been very popular.."
What time is it/will be over there? Check with my iPhone app!
I like when employers ask for "10 years experience in C#" when the language hasn't been around that long.
The people posting the jobs are insane, incompentent, idiotic or all of the above.
Favorite post:
Must have Exchange 2000 on Solaris 8.
This
Probably all the morons who have overtaken this site for a while now.
Wanna mod me down? Go ahead asshole!
Typical data point:
Which language do you use most at work?
( ) C/C++
( ) Java
( ) Perl ( ) Would you like to supersize that for only 39 cents extra?
(X) CowboyNeal
The old Citran, Joss, Cal, or whatever time-sharing interpreted language was written in Fortran. (About 5k lines of Fortran II, I think) It was much better than its competitors of the day, ie Basic and Xtran.
Then, for the real fans of serious programmer cajones, consider this: Realia wrote their COBOL compiler in Realia COBOL, which was a take-no-prisoners, unmitigated, unextended, minimum standard COBOL, ie 1974 version more or less.