RE: [QUAR] RE: RPG vaults COBOL, leaps 11 spots

[Mike Cunningham <mike.cunningham@xxxxxxx>]

Sorry. Did it hurt? 

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
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Subject: RE: [QUAR] RE: RPG vaults COBOL, leaps 11 spots

Took the idea right out of my brain!

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Cunningham
> Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 9:14 AM
> To: 'midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [QUAR] RE: RPG vaults COBOL, leaps 11 spots
>
> Lets run an analysis of the languages asked about on the midrange listserv
> and publish a web site showing those statistics. Bet that would show RPG
as
> the #1 language in use today :)
>
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> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of john e
> Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 8:34 AM
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> Subject: [QUAR] RE: RPG vaults COBOL, leaps 11 spots
> Importance: Low
>
>
> > in regard to getting a guage on the levels of usage of programming
> > languages, stack overflow is worth a look.
> > http://stackoverflow.com/tags
>
> I think a site like this is quite biased toward a specific platform, in
this
> case Windows (so .Net, C# are most popular). By looking at these figures
you
> get a good overview of the popularity of tools/languages on the windows
> platform, but not in general. As more devs post about windows the more
> windows devs it attracts, etc. These "network effects" are quite strong. I
> don't think a typical RPG programmer would post questions to this specific
> site as it is more Windows centric. I believe experts-exchange  is less
> biased. But the typical RPG programmer would first use google to find
> information, i suppose.
>
>
> > Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 07:53:06 -0400
> > Subject: Re: RPG vaults COBOL, leaps 11 spots
> > From: stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx
> > To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > 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
> > >
> > > 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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