These are discouraging stats to Perlistas & Pythonistas...

[Malcolm Dew-Jones]

Sara (genericax at hotmail.com) wrote:
: Looks like Bill is successfully creating his "clone army". 

: At least we're way above PHP, which barely beat Fortran! Lords of
: Light it's amazing anyone who isn't one of Bill's or Sun's drones is
: employed.... It looks like a Perl programmer has about an equal chance
: of being employed in his skill as a COBOL programmer, and probably for
: a lot less $$ since COBOL programmers have to be scarce as hens teeth.

: This is discouraging.... I guess next year at OSCON we should replace
: the Python talks with "Labview" and "PowerBuilder" to attract more
: attendees? I'd be a parking attendant  before I'd learn ASP. You may
: be taking over the world Bill but you ain't getting ME!

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: Recent DICE survey resuts:

: >Number of Job Listings by Programming Language (January 3, 2003)
: >
: >               monster.com dice.com %
: >
: >  SQL          5000        2486     24.06%
: >
: >  ASP          2156        2480     14.90%
: >
: >  Java         2664        1862     14.55%
: >
: >  C++          2046        1480     11.33%
: >
: >  Visual Basic 2037        1095     10.07%
: >
: >  Perl         925         548      4.73%
: >
: >  Javascript   914         489      4.51%
: >
: >  Cobol        595         532      3.62%
: >
: >  SAS          805         269      3.45%
: >
: >  C#           284         179      1.49%
: >
: >  Ada          377         65       1.42%
: >
: >  RPG          248         163      1.32%
: >
: >  PowerBuilder 155         106      0.84%
: >
: >  PHP          189         30       0.70%
: >
: >  Delphi       157         55       0.68%
: >
: >  Fortran      121         49       0.55%
: >
: >  LabVIEW      108         27       0.43%
: >
: >  Tcl          73          33       0.34%
: >
: >  Python       55          32       0.28%
: >
: >  Smalltalk    41          30       0.23%
: >
: >  Rexx         33          25       0.19%
: >
: >  Pascal       28          17       0.14%
: >
: >  Lisp         12          9        0.07%
: >
: >  SML          7           6        0.04%
: >
: >  Haskell      6           6        0.04%
: >
: >  Caml         0           0        0.00%
: >


Job listings also measure the *turnover* of employees, not just the number
of jobs. 

Perhaps the perl programmers are happy, so the existing jobs don't lead to
job listings.

Perhaps the perl programmers are efficient, so existing work doesn't lead
to more jobs.