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Where's Ruby? :-)
Posted Apr 07 2005, 04:23 PM by don-box

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David wrote re: Compuworld Survey on Language Usage
on 04-07-2005 2:40 PM
Farther down the page Ruby weighs in with a whooping 1%.
Mike Petry wrote re: Compuworld Survey on Language Usage
on 04-07-2005 2:42 PM
The article touts that C# is the most "preferred language of developers" but the survey question is "used in your place of work". It probably would be accurate to state that these are the languages preferred by IT managers, not developers.
Ruby is one of the languages that is used by developers when they hack at home and would it rate much higher if the survey question actually asked for a preferred or favorite language.
Sam Meldrum wrote re: Compuworld Survey on Language Usage
on 04-08-2005 12:40 AM
The stats don't all stack up terribly nicely. The .Net vs Java runtime stats don't stack up with the Java vs C# language stats. I suspect that the difference may be down to the reported job functions of the respondents...

<a href="http://www.fairview3.clara.co.uk/2005/04/computerworld-development-survey-gives.html">More...</a>
Martin Plante wrote re: Compuworld Survey on Language Usage
on 04-08-2005 4:41 AM
"What is your current position/job function?
- IT manager = 38%
- Developer = 36%"

The industry has a problem! q;-)
Girish Bharadwaj wrote C# rules
on 04-08-2005 6:36 AM
Jon Fancey wrote re: Compuworld Survey on Language Usage
on 04-08-2005 2:28 PM
Managers have more time to fill in surveys.
Marc Hall wrote re: Compuworld Survey on Language Usage
on 04-11-2005 7:01 AM
C# or JAVA? Hmmm...C# or JAVA?
That's like your oral surgeon asking "Whiskey or local anesthetic?"

My question is this, how much longer will JAVA live?
mario wrote re: Compuworld Survey on Language Usage
on 04-12-2005 6:39 PM
we are using MDA tool and the question of language is not longer in focus. Also interesting to analyse reverse code (I accept intellectual properties and copyrights!!!) and switch between languages, .net and J2EE. e.g. we try to transfer the OO/OR mapping tool "hibernate 3.0" from JAVA to C# and it seems not so complex to solve the rest of problems.

And I prefer Whisky, but not on oral surgeons desk...and not as model view for programming languages.
regards mario

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