Re: What's the latest thinkingof the best twoor threewebdevelopment languages/environ...

vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

REXX is all over the place in the mainframe world, so there are actually a whole bunch of REXX programmers out there. There is an ObjectREXX for Windows, at least - not sure about Linux or Unix, although I bet REXX exists for AIX. For some reason it also has not got much traction on the iSeries - I don't know if it was available on the 38, but it might have been.

Never take a single source for granted, but if you go to the TIOBE site (and they've been doing this for a long time) you can see that REXX doesn't get much airplay at all.

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

COBOL is consistently in the top 20 (with around 0.35%), RPG is usually in the top 25 (at about 0.25%) and REXX is somewhere down in the 40th-50th spot with less than a tenth of a percent.

The numbers overall are pretty interesting. PHP is the 5th language overall, but with less than 10% share.

Joe