From: lvirden@... Date: 2003-01-18T03:07:11+09:00 Subject: Re: most popular unix scripting language According to Sara : :claird@lairds.com (Cameron Laird) wrote in message :news:... :> In article , :> dambalaMaster wrote: :> >does anyone know which is the most popular unix scripting language? :Accordind to DICE/monster, Perl IS the hands-down winner. :> monster.com dice.com % :> :> SQL 5000 2486 24.06% :> :> ASP 2156 2480 14.90% :> :> Java 2664 1862 14.55% :> :> C++ 2046 1480 11.33% :> :> Visual Basic 2037 1095 10.07% :> :> Perl 925 548 4.73% :> :> Javascript 914 489 4.51% :> :> Cobol 595 532 3.62% :> :> SAS 805 269 3.45% All you are identifying is the list of languages which appear on resumes. In my experience, people put a lot of things on their resumes that do not reflect reality. Not only that, no one has yet defined 'most popular' - if someone has a million plus lines of applications in some particular scripting languages, is that more popular than some other language which has several hundred applications each of which are a few hundred lines long? Or is the shorter more numerous applications more frequent? Just because people use SQL a lot, does that mean that it is popular - or just the primary language available to use? Perhaps the majority of people hate it? Is it still popular if that were the case? -- Tcl - The glue of a new generation. Even if explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting should be construed as representing my employer's opinions.