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  • F Franz Klein

    Where can one find out which industry uses which programming language the most? Somebody mentioned in passing that C++ is used mostly in Engineering.

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    thrakazog
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    Most video games are programmed in c/c++ but outside that I don't know if you would find an industry that stuck with a particular technology.

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    • F Franz Klein

      Where can one find out which industry uses which programming language the most? Somebody mentioned in passing that C++ is used mostly in Engineering.

      I am the handsome one in the crowd.

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      Bulky Fellow
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      I'm not 100% sure, but I can try. Healthcare = Heavy use of Mainframes and J2EE (this one I'm 110% sure) Online Businesses and Services = J2EE, .NET, PHP Insurance = Once again Mainframes and J2EE Maybe some more people can add to this.

      ASP - AJAX is SEXY. PERIOD.

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      • F Franz Klein

        Where can one find out which industry uses which programming language the most? Somebody mentioned in passing that C++ is used mostly in Engineering.

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        Member 96
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        I've always found that any survey or stats on programming languages are suspect at best and rarely proven out in real life. Best policy is to learn them all and be ready to use whatever is required for the project.


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        • F Franz Klein

          Where can one find out which industry uses which programming language the most? Somebody mentioned in passing that C++ is used mostly in Engineering.

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          Tim Carmichael
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          In my 20+ years of work in manufacturing environments, it has been: (mainframe) Fortran, COBOL, C, BASIC, Assembler (Windows) VB (from VB 4 to VB.Net on Framework 2.0), ASP, ASP.Net, Javascript, VBScript (Database) DBMS, Oracle, Ingres, Access, SQLServer These are not listed in any particular order, just what I remember and have encountered. Tim

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          • F Franz Klein

            Where can one find out which industry uses which programming language the most? Somebody mentioned in passing that C++ is used mostly in Engineering.

            I am the handsome one in the crowd.

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            NormDroid
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            Hardware: C, PIC, C++, Assembler.

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            • F Franz Klein

              Where can one find out which industry uses which programming language the most? Somebody mentioned in passing that C++ is used mostly in Engineering.

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              jesarg
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              In my unscientific observations in the last few years: Most embedded development that I know of from friends and colleagues is still done in C, and a small bit in C++. Big corporations use mostly Java EE for enterprise software development. Contract web development for simple web applications and websites is done mostly in PHP and Perl. I know Python and Ruby exist, too, but I don't know of people actively using it now. .NET is used by small and medium companies for a variety of development purposes, and it also seems to have become a favorite platform for software development houses that do custom software development for non-software companies.

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              • F Franz Klein

                Where can one find out which industry uses which programming language the most? Somebody mentioned in passing that C++ is used mostly in Engineering.

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                Ed Poore
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                Based on my experience and talking to various people around here at IC: Windows: VB, VB.NET, C# Web: ASP.NET, PHP, Java Embedded: Assembler, C, occasionally C++ for larger processors, BASIC for teaching Software Engineering (Teaching in Electrical & Electronics): Pascal / Delphi Physics: C++ Information Systems Engineering (Teaching): C

                Franz Klein wrote:

                Somebody mentioned in passing that C++ is used mostly in Engineering.

                Depends which engineering you're doing, as I said here at Imperial Physics are taught C++ and Electrical are taught Pascal initially then Assembler and perhaps C.


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                • F Franz Klein

                  Where can one find out which industry uses which programming language the most? Somebody mentioned in passing that C++ is used mostly in Engineering.

                  I am the handsome one in the crowd.

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                  R Giskard Reventlov
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                  Banking: mostly Microsoft technologies middle, back and peripheral, mix of MS and Java in the front office. Lots of small teams still use Excel/Access for financial apps though not as much as it used to be. Where I am now I'm the only nettie: the rest are still using ladies asp and other 20th century technologies though trying hard to learn! Most of my colleagues and peers tend to feel that MS is currently the flavor of the month with Java a close second. It very much depends on the whim and experience of the manager and the business users driving the projects: where desks have been running for a long time with established IT many are still c++ driven. Note that this was a sweeping generalisation and based on a small sampling. :)

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                  • B Bulky Fellow

                    I'm not 100% sure, but I can try. Healthcare = Heavy use of Mainframes and J2EE (this one I'm 110% sure) Online Businesses and Services = J2EE, .NET, PHP Insurance = Once again Mainframes and J2EE Maybe some more people can add to this.

                    ASP - AJAX is SEXY. PERIOD.

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                    eggsovereasy
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                    I live in Nashville, TN where health care is the largest industry (over 250 health care companies + HCA) and though I don't work in it I have interviewed for jobs and it seems there is some migration to .NET technologies going on here at least.

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                    • F Franz Klein

                      Where can one find out which industry uses which programming language the most? Somebody mentioned in passing that C++ is used mostly in Engineering.

                      I am the handsome one in the crowd.

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                      • F Franz Klein

                        Where can one find out which industry uses which programming language the most? Somebody mentioned in passing that C++ is used mostly in Engineering.

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                        Josh Smith
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                        If you're asking this because you want to choose a language to learn, I think you might want to reconsider your plan. Take whatever language you love and learn for fun, and then find jobs that require it. You'll be much happier that way!

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                        • J Josh Smith

                          If you're asking this because you want to choose a language to learn, I think you might want to reconsider your plan. Take whatever language you love and learn for fun, and then find jobs that require it. You'll be much happier that way!

                          :josh: My WPF Blog[^] Without a strive for perfection I would be terribly bored.

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                          Manuel F Hernandez
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                          Good advice. For coding and for any jobs in general

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