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| rjf... |
 Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:43 am |
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Queue, a magazine published by ACM (Association for Computing
Machinery), surveys its readers each year in order to establish the
statistics of its reader base, presumably for advertisers. Among the
questions, it asks
7. Which programming languages do you know/use, or plan to purchase
within 12 months? (check all that apply)
The languages are:
Visual Basic
Visual C++
.Net
C/C++
C#
Cobol
SQL
Delphi
Java
Jdeveloper
J2EE
JBuilder
HTML/DHTML
IBM Visual Age
Oracle
XML
Perl or other scripting
Sun ONE
None
Other (please specify)
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Note the absence of computer algebra systems, numerical or engineering
systems, Python, Ruby, Lisp, (or any "functional programming" style
languages), etc. Clearly someone should invent a programming
language called "Other" or maybe call it "None".
Maybe it is not that the languages are irrelevant, but the Queue
magazine is. |
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| jacob navia... |
| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 1:57 pm |
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rjf wrote:
Quote: Queue, a magazine published by ACM (Association for Computing
Machinery), surveys its readers each year in order to establish the
statistics of its reader base, presumably for advertisers. Among the
questions, it asks
7. Which programming languages do you know/use, or plan to purchase
within 12 months? (check all that apply)
The languages are:
Visual Basic
Visual C++
Interesting. Visual C++ is different than C++.
..Net is not a language but a language PLATFORM where many languages have
been implemented. I think the guy that did this survey doesn't have a
clue!
Quote: C/C++
Note that C and C++ are two DIFFERENT languages
Quote: C#
Cobol
SQL
Delphi
Java
Jdeveloper
Jave is different than jdeveloper?
J2EE
ditto
JBuilder
and another one!
HTML/DHTML
IBM Visual Age
This is not a computer language but a development ENVIRONMENT!
Oracle
This is not a language but a data base management system.
XML
Perl or other scripting
Sun ONE
None
This is the best language we ever had 
Other (please specify)
--
jacob navia
jacob at jacob point remcomp point fr
logiciels/informatique
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32 |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 4:23 am |
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On Jun 25, 1:43 pm, rjf <fate... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
Quote: Queue, a magazine published by ACM (Association for Computing
Machinery), surveys its readers each year in order to establish the
statistics of its reader base, presumably for advertisers. Among the
questions, it asks
7. Which programming languages do you know/use, or plan to purchase
within 12 months? (check all that apply)
The languages are:
[snip]
Quote: Note the absence of computer algebra systems, numerical or engineering
systems, Python, Ruby, Lisp, (or any "functional programming" style
languages), etc. Clearly someone should invent a programming
language called "Other" or maybe call it "None".
Maybe it is not that the languages are irrelevant, but the Queue
magazine is.
I am surprised by the selection of "programming languages", too.
XML is clearly *not* a programming language. XSLT is a language for
transforming XML documents, but this language is not on the list.
I can't understand why the question asked which languages the students
"plan to purchase". A lot of programming languages' compilers are
freely available.
Just my two cents... |
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