RE: Broadening my horizons

They didn't say where the numbers came from, but they were talking about an IBMi SCM vendor, so I assume it was a vendor survey.

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From: John Yeung [mailto:gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2016 6:33 PM
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Subject: Re: Broadening my horizons

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

IT Jungle has some charts in a story this week.
http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh102416-story03.html

From that article:

"It might surprise some to know there are more Python developers than Java developers."

That surprises me, and I'm... sort of a Python developer. I wonder what the context of that statement is. Are they talking just on IBM i?
Are they including anyone who noodles around in one of those languages, or do they only mean people whose primary language at their day job is one of those? Or do they include open source projects?

Python is a great language for noodling around in, and tons of people do just that and no more. Or they do automation scripts with it but not "proper applications". Java isn't as well suited to casual use or scripting, though of course that doesn't stop some people.

John Y.