{"id":76,"date":"2006-06-26T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2006-06-26T11:09:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T11:09:00","slug":"programming-language-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/programming-language-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Programming Language Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every programmer in the world takes an interest in their favourite language or languages and how popular or unpopular it is. People have flame wars about the virtues of &#8220;their&#8221; programming language&#8217;s strengths and weaknesses. My favourites are C++, Delphi and PHP, but I go by the &#8220;Horses for Courses&#8221; adage- use the best tool for the job. <\/p>\n<p>Just recently I came across the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiobe.com\/tpci.htm\">Tiobe survey,<\/a> a monthly look at the popularity of Computer Languages by results for several search engines. It makes interesting reading and its surprising just how far ahead Java is from C#. Its good to see that C++ is increasing in popularity though long term (see the charts on Tiobe&#8217;s page it too is in a long term decline). I wonder how closely the survey relates to the job market. All the legacy code must have a big lag effect. <\/p>\n<p>Sadly Delphi&#8217;s decline appears to be terminal. Borland&#8217;s decision to sell their IDE development part of the company off was the last nail in the coffin but many of the other nails there could be attributed back a few years to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Borland#The_Inprise_years.2C_and_name_changes\">Inprise episode<\/a> when Borland changed name and not a little to Microsoft&#8217;s staff recruitment policies which saw them pinch Anders Hejlsberg, the architect of Turbo Pascal, Delphi and C#. <\/p>\n<p>I did an &#8220;Programming Language by Jobs&#8221; survey a year ago and its probably time to do another so in a few days. This is done by counting the number of job vacancies for a given language in a country and dividing by 5 to get the true number of jobs. Watch this space!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every programmer in the world takes an interest in their favourite language or languages and how popular or unpopular it is. People have flame wars about the virtues of &#8220;their&#8221; programming language&#8217;s strengths and weaknesses. My favourites are C++, Delphi and PHP, but I go by the &#8220;Horses for Courses&#8221; adage- use the best tool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}