Programming languages: Python could soon overtake C and Java as most popular
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I suspect that VB (both .NET and even .COM) are still important in corporate LOB apps. Microsoft used to understand their corporate dev market but my impression is that they've somewhat lost the knack of what corporate LOB app development is about. It's VERY boring and slow moving, from what I can see, which is almost the complete opposite of web-focussed development that most of us think of as development now (I think?). There must be some LOB app devs here although my impression is that the kind of people who do that sort of work often don't engage much on the Internet, unbelievable though that might seem to those of us who have an Internet-mindset. ;-) There's a whole other world out there, running VB.com apps on Windows with HP-UX, AIX, Solaris and Z/OS. Use Linux? When it's stable.
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Kent Sharkey wrote:
"Classic VB" at #11
It's not that I consider the idea of VB6/VBA still being the 11th most used programming platform today impossible; it's that Tiob:elephant: is claiming that they doubled in popularity over the last year. If that's not proof that they're publishing is line noise, I don't know what is.
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