These are discouraging stats to Perlistas & Pythonistas...

[Jacob Hallen]

In article <S5GS9.5881$qU5.4697503 at newssrv26.news.prodigy.com>,
dsavitsk  <dsavitsk at ecpsoftware.com> wrote:
>Sara wrote:
>
>> Recent DICE survey resuts:
>> 
>> 
>>>Number of Job Listings by Programming Language (January 3, 2003)
>>>
>
>>>
>>> Visual Basic 2037        1095     10.07%
>>>
>>> Python       55          32       0.28%
>
>This says nothing, of course. If the ratio of VB people to Python people 
>is 2037 to 54 or greater, then you shouldn't be too worried.  I have no 
>idea what the real numbers are, but I would not be surprised if the 
>disparity was this large.

An interesting thought is wether the 55 Python programmers will produce
more useful applications than the 2037 VB programmers.

Jacob Hallén

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