Are your skills up to date?

alex barylski

Haha...I think I did read that thing wrong... Although I don't think PHP will level off...it's a newbie language and makes writing applications for the Internet so easy anyone can do it... I can throw marbles at the keyboard and PHP will run and something will be output to the screen. :P For that reason, it will always attract new people, whereas Ruby, Python, C#, etc...have a much smaller target audience. If anything PHP might loose the occasional professional to one of those langauges as they further develop their programming skills. Seriously, PHP ain't going anywhere and I can't see it leveling off...unfortunately this popularity also means I compete for jobs with people who also read a book once for PHP and are now experts in AJAX/MySQL/PHP so the wages are really low. :P

I'm finding the only constant in software development is change it self.

Dirk Higbee

and also VB on a slow rise :)

Don't take any wooden nickels.

Roger Wright

Most I've known are more interested in large hard drives than any sort of skills.

"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

Todd Smith

Maybe you should look a little closer http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/C_.html[^] http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/C__.html[^]

Todd Smith

alex barylski

I did read it totally backwards... I didn't look at any charts just that table...and the little red arrow pointing down told me it declined...how it declined I didn't bother reading cause I simply wasn't interested. :P Thank you for bringing this to light though, so at least I don't make a fool of myself on any other forums today. :P

I'm finding the only constant in software development is change it self.

Big Daddy Farang

Hockey wrote:

make a fool of myself on any other forums today

Well, it's still early....

BDF A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool. -- Moliere

Paul Conrad

Seems like someone posted this crap about a month or two ago. Debates have gone on about it's accuracy and I really don't buy anything that site says. :|

"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

alex barylski

Hahaha...nice :laugh:

I'm finding the only constant in software development is change it self.

Stuart Dootson

Powershell - Current share = 0.436% , a rise of 0.44% - so Powershell previously had -0.004%...;P Maybe their maths needs more work...

urf3

Excellent Peterchen...

Jonathan C Dickinson

Dabble in the stock market do we? Maybe we need to get investment companies to analyse these graphs so we can decide on which sections to read on CodeProject each month ;).

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. [Chineese Proverb] Jonathan C Dickinson (C# Software Engineer)

Lost User

Or maybe "Would you like to see my member function?"

Rohde

Wow...that was embarrassing. Maybe you should review math and percentages. If their current share is 0.436% and it rose 0.44% their previous market share was about 0.434% (prev. share x 1.0044 = 0.436)

"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, `Who is destroying the world?' You are."
-Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

Rohde

Hmm. Interesting. Though where I live I see very few job postings on C++ and almost none on C. I see quite a lot on C# and Java though.

"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, `Who is destroying the world?' You are."
-Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

computer_nerd

The rise and fall indicators seem to only relate to the previous month as the survey is done monthly. If you look at the long term trend either on the graph below or by clicking on the links for each language, you'll see that c and c++ are falling whereas c# is rising

Stuart Dootson

Rohde wrote:

Wow...that was embarrassing. Maybe you should review math and percentages. If their current share is 0.436% and it rose 0.44% their previous market share was about 0.434% (prev. share x 1.0044 = 0.436)

Hmmmm - don't think so. Remember that the Tiobe index is measured in %, so a delta signified in % could either be a % change in the popularity value or an absolute change in that popularity value. So, let's look at the historical trends[^] - specifically Python, as it has a relatively big change - +2% over the last 12 months. It's currently @ 5% share, it was at roughly 3% share last July. If the delta was 2% of the current 5% then Python would have been at 4.9%.

Not Active

Please, let's keep that private ;P

only two letters away from being an asset

JasonCordes

Disappointed Groovy isn't represented.

Kent K

Oh, that's good. . .. :laugh:

Kent K

It's a rounding artifact. I read it as the delta = absolute change. July 07 it wasn't on the charts (0%) and now it is at 0.436%, rounded to 0.44% in that column.