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    ToddHileHoffer
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    Apparently it goes Java, C, Visual Basic, C++. Not sure what this means. http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm

    I didn't get any requirements for the signature

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      It means nothing, these things always mean nothing.


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        Apparently it goes Java, C, Visual Basic, C++. Not sure what this means. http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm

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        Christian Graus
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        "The ratings are based on the world-wide availability of skilled engineers, courses and third party vendors" It means there's a lot of highly visible, out of work Java devs ? :P VB is high because VB6 was and is useless without C++ 'third party' components.

        Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

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          Apparently it goes Java, C, Visual Basic, C++. Not sure what this means. http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm

          I didn't get any requirements for the signature

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          peterchen
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          That's like judging the popularity of a girl by how many guys already have dated her.


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            Apparently it goes Java, C, Visual Basic, C++. Not sure what this means. http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm

            I didn't get any requirements for the signature

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            snorkie
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            Interesting. I would be curious to see what the actual numbers are for each language. Hogan

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              That's like judging the popularity of a girl by how many guys already have dated her.


              We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
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              Xiangyang Liu
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              peterchen wrote:

              That's like judging the popularity of a girl by how many guys already have dated her.

              The correct way is: Judging the popularity of a girl by how many guys want to date her. :-D

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                Interesting. I would be curious to see what the actual numbers are for each language. Hogan

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                Dan Neely
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                You can buy their dataset if you really care $1500 worth. :doh:

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                • T ToddHileHoffer

                  Apparently it goes Java, C, Visual Basic, C++. Not sure what this means. http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm

                  I didn't get any requirements for the signature

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                  Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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                  nothing really. One can easily use many languages when developing. C#/JavaScript is a combo that is often on found for web development, SQL is there also if there's any database connectivity of sorts, then there's XML (it is a language, eXtensible Markup Language;p) So for a single web app, 4 languages have been used, albeit the brunt of the work was conducted by C#. And there's the glue languages paradigm where you use such languages as Perl, Python and Lua (awesome stuff). And there's the maintaining of old code that is conducted with the same language that wrote it. So this [the statistic] pretty much means nothing.

                  "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook "There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." Ali ibn Abi Talib "Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?"

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                    peterchen wrote:

                    That's like judging the popularity of a girl by how many guys already have dated her.

                    The correct way is: Judging the popularity of a girl by how many guys want to date her. :-D

                    My .NET Business Application Framework My Home Page

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                    peterchen
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                    exactly my point :)


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                      Apparently it goes Java, C, Visual Basic, C++. Not sure what this means. http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm

                      I didn't get any requirements for the signature

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                      Anton Afanasyev
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                      ooooh, Lua is going up...


                      :badger:

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                      • C Christian Graus

                        "The ratings are based on the world-wide availability of skilled engineers, courses and third party vendors" It means there's a lot of highly visible, out of work Java devs ? :P VB is high because VB6 was and is useless without C++ 'third party' components.

                        Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

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                        Paul Conrad
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                        It could have been secretly done by Sun... :suss:

                        "Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus

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                          Apparently it goes Java, C, Visual Basic, C++. Not sure what this means. http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm

                          I didn't get any requirements for the signature

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                          Paul Conrad
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                          ToddHileHoffer wrote:

                          Not sure what this means.

                          I don't think it really means much. I don't really ever look at stats like that because usually it is skewed or biased.

                          "Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus

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                            Apparently it goes Java, C, Visual Basic, C++. Not sure what this means. http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm

                            I didn't get any requirements for the signature

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                            bob16972
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                            You missed the fact that tiobe recently merged VB and VB.NET into one category because they suddenly decided the two languages were similar?!? :rolleyes: (might as well make C and C++ into C/C++ in that case) This is causing a massive swing upward in the VB ranking this year. Also, the stats only show how often people resort to googling for information on a language topic. Not as scientific as one would hope for. Also, look at those massive swings. If I remember right from Physics class, the error analysis would not be good on their data.

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                              peterchen wrote:

                              That's like judging the popularity of a girl by how many guys already have dated her.

                              The correct way is: Judging the popularity of a girl by how many guys want to date her. :-D

                              My .NET Business Application Framework My Home Page

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                              Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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                              Xiangyang Liu wrote:

                              peterchen wrote: That's like judging the popularity of a girl by how many guys already have dated her.

                              This indicates the number of existing customers for a particular product or sevice.

                              Xiangyang Liu wrote:

                              guys want to date her

                              This may stand to indicate the waiting list of customers. So do you feel the latter is a good benchmark to ascertain the popularity of the girl?:-D

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                                ToddHileHoffer wrote:

                                Not sure what this means.

                                I don't think it really means much. I don't really ever look at stats like that because usually it is skewed or biased.

                                "Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus

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                                Ilya Verbitskiy
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                                When I studied in the university I saw one amazing thing. My friends downloaded these reports, read them and started to learn new programming languages. And they always said that this "new" language is the best. These reports are interesting, but this one looks like it was paid by Sun. :) Few weeks ago I saw the same "report" paid by Microsoft.

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                                  peterchen wrote:

                                  That's like judging the popularity of a girl by how many guys already have dated her.

                                  The correct way is: Judging the popularity of a girl by how many guys want to date her. :-D

                                  My .NET Business Application Framework My Home Page

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                                  Paul Watson
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                                  You still need the "How many has she dated" figure. You want that to be a low figure and your figure to be a high one.

                                  regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

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                                    Apparently it goes Java, C, Visual Basic, C++. Not sure what this means. http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm

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                                    LenaBr
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                                    It would be better to check job adds and salaries. Then you would know what is really wanted out there. Lena

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                                      "The ratings are based on the world-wide availability of skilled engineers, courses and third party vendors" It means there's a lot of highly visible, out of work Java devs ? :P VB is high because VB6 was and is useless without C++ 'third party' components.

                                      Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

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                                      gelu_solomon
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                                      Maybe it means that there are more Java applications then you want to acknowledge. You are like the fox in the fable: “Those grapes are probably sour. I don't want them”

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                                        nothing really. One can easily use many languages when developing. C#/JavaScript is a combo that is often on found for web development, SQL is there also if there's any database connectivity of sorts, then there's XML (it is a language, eXtensible Markup Language;p) So for a single web app, 4 languages have been used, albeit the brunt of the work was conducted by C#. And there's the glue languages paradigm where you use such languages as Perl, Python and Lua (awesome stuff). And there's the maintaining of old code that is conducted with the same language that wrote it. So this [the statistic] pretty much means nothing.

                                        "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook "There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." Ali ibn Abi Talib "Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?"

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                                        Tom Delany
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                                        Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:

                                        "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook

                                        I love that quote! Cheers,

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                                          Apparently it goes Java, C, Visual Basic, C++. Not sure what this means. http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm

                                          I didn't get any requirements for the signature

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                                          grgran
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                                          COBOL was once very popular (and is still 17 on their list). Java is the new COBOL. I've written in both Java and COBOL. Neither are my first choice, but I've noticed that the computer doesn't much care. I think it might mean that our understanding of computers and programming is limited and hopeful evolving. Of course it could also just be a BVMS (Big Vat of Meanless Statistics).

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