As the article points out, Java and .NET are mentioned in countless job postings as "nice to haves," rather than as serious requirements central to the position...
I was playing around with the indeed.com search engine and saw that it was possible to search only the titles of job postings. That seems like a decent way to find the jobs where the queried language is the primary language (or at least required) for the job. I ran a few stats and got:
java 11,064 .net 6,874 c++ 4,418 c# 2,458 visual basic 862 + vb 1,622 = 2408 perl 867 php 712 python 34
Not that these stats are highly meaningful, but it does show a few notable differences: 1. there's now a 10 to 1 ratio of Java jobs to Perl jobs (instead of about 3 to 1 with the more broad criteria), 2. PHP is now neck-and-neck with Perl (before the PHP count was less than 1/4 the Perl count).
-Tom
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