Elaine,
Good point about the job market. A quick search of Dice.com using Java and
Perl, results in:
Java: 42698 matching your query
Perl: 15376 matching your query
So in the tech job market, Java is beating Perl 3 to 1. So, do Java books
outsell Perl books 3 to 1?
-Kevin
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
> Madeline Schnapp [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
> *>
> *>We are tracking several indicators and some of these indicators seem to
> *>suggest that the popularity of Perl is not growing as fast as it has been
> *>in the past. My theory is that Java is becoming much more ubiquitous, and
> *>this is occurring at the expense of Perl (and also perhaps all of the other
> *>OS languages but I can't say that for a sure.....yet).
>
> Java and commercial Java applications, especially for the web are a big
> deal in corporate web shops. Take a close look at the types of jobs and
> the job titles...few jobs are for Perl only, but people can get a
> high-paying gig just doing Java as a 'Programming Engineer' or somesuch.
>
> As deepthroat says, "Follow the money."
>
> The books are only a small symptom of a far larger trend.
>
> *>The problem is I know a lot of good Java programmers, and I know a lot of
> *>good Perl programmers but I don't know a lot of both so finding someone
> *>that can speak intelligently about both languages is an exercise in finding
> *>a needle in a haystack.
>
> You might ask Jarkko as I hear he is having to succumb to Java programming
> at work these days :)
>
> e.
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