Hi Marc,
That bet sounds fun. Here is the last address I have for Jeff.
He used to live in Pgh. This information is about 2 years old.
If you get a confirmation or a more recent address, please let me
know:
Jeffrey G. Bonar
IBM
Object Architect, t/l 678-0937
11400 Burnet Road, Mailstop 9645
Austin, TX 78758-3493
512/838-0937
fax 512/838-1032
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I guess the wording of the bet rules out spreadsheet programming.
I wonder how many people program using Visual Basic? If anyone
has a good number for this, I would like to know!
The best numbers I have, which sound too low, is the following
(from my "Almanac" page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/numbers/ )
<I>Doug van Kirk, "Diamond in the Rough," Information
Week, July 31, 1995, p. 44</I>
<P>
"IS departments [are] flocking to Visual Basic, making it
the most popular language tool since Cobol (see chart)."
<PRE>
<B>Language Installed Base</B>
Cobol 2.5 million
Visual Basic 2 million
C++ 1.2 million
Smalltalk 120,000
</PRE><P><BR>
Brad A. Myers
Human Computer Interaction Institute
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891
(412) 268-5150
FAX: (412) 268-1266
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam
