Re: RPG vaults COBOL, leaps 11 spots

[Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

That would be a 1000-stepper, right?

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> LOL - spolsky has some good experience in the windows/m$ world - but he
> has the utmost disdain for anything connected to ebcdic - narrow-minded
> to some degree
>
> as the 12-steppers say - take what you like and leave the rest (12-step
> is not a dance for millipedes, btw)
>
> Vern
>
> Michael Ryan wrote:
> > Oh yeah...Joel on Software...sure...
> >
> > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > > in regard to getting a guage on the levels of usage of programming
> > > languages, stack overflow is worth a look.
> > > http://stackoverflow.com/tags
> > >
> > > It is a forum where people post software questions and others answer.
> > > Questions are tagged by language, so you can see a summary of how many
> > > questions are being asked for each tag.
> > >
> > > it is relatively new and run by Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software fame
> > > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I know I haven't been around a lot, and the last time I mentioned this
> > > > the trolls appeared, but those interested in the RPG language might
> find
> > > > this intriguing:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
> > > >
> > > > RPG is now the 15th most popular language.  I guess it dropped to 26th
> > > > last month (as I've noted, I don't really keep track) but the surge to
> > > > 15th is pretty astonishing, at least to me.
> > > >
> > > > Even more astonishing, though, is the fact that since the beginning of
> > > > the year, the demand for RPG has skyrocketed, relatively speaking, and
> > > > continues to trend upward.  Very interesting.
> > > >
> > > > http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/RPG_(OS_400).html<http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/RPG_%28OS_400%29.html>
> <http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/RPG_%28OS_400%29.html>
> > > > This in comparison to, say, Java, which is slowly trending down, and
> PHP
> > > > which is basically flat (and has been since about 2005).  And while C#
> > > > still has an overall upward trend, it hasn't done very well in 2009.
> > > > Poor old Visual Basic has been on a pretty steep decline since 2008.
> > > >
> > > > Hey, at least it's not Perl:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Perl.html
> > > >
> > > > Joe
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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