These are discouraging stats to Perlistas & Pythonistas...

[Robert Oschler]

"Sara" <genericax at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:776e0325.0301070721.7405a312 at posting.google.com...
> Looks like Bill is successfully creating his "clone army".
>
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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%
> >


I can't look at dice.com anymore, too depressing.  Some appx stats:

Date    C++ jobs    Java jobs

3/2000    42000    31000
10/2003    2200    2800

That's right, almost a 20 to 1 loss of job reqs in C++, and 10 to 1 in Java.
Also note, Java is now in the lead over C++

I hate the dot-bust.

thx