These are discouraging stats to Perlistas & Pythonistas...

[Sara]

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%
>