From: Roseanne Zhang <roseanne@...>
Date: 2006-10-01T10:25:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Hot new programming languages - according to the TIOBE i

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 
> I'm going to make a rather bold claim here. I will claim that the
> percentage breakdown of programming jobs by language is for all
> practical purposes equal to the percentage breakdown of lines of legacy
> code written in those languages that needs to be maintained. In short,
> it has nothing to do with the quality of the language, the suitability
> of the language for the software in question, whether the language is
> "powerful" or "hot" or "productive", or any factors dealing with the
> creation of *new* software.
> 

Haha, I added cobol for the legacy purpose:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=Java-programmer%2C+C%2B%2B--programmer%2C+cobol-programmer%2C+PHP-Programmer%2C+C-programmer

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