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Re: XQuery Adoption Survey Results

• To: "'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: XQuery Adoption Survey Results
• From: "Ken North" <kennorth@s...>
• Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:28:20 -0800
• References: <200503301654.j2UGsCsq012785@y...>

> C#                             6.4   million
> SQL                        22.7
>  COBOL                         1.3 million
>  Fortran                       2.7 million
>   Perl                         22 million

Refining the searches:

RDF -filetype:rdf                  5.9 million
Java -coffee -Sumatra         55.7 million


Comparing with Google data from November 2003 (below),

- Perl, COBOL, SQL, FORTRAN, Visual Basic are down
- Java is up

> If you are going to throw in programming languages then
> you may want to check out:
>   http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm

There are some significant differences in trends reported on that page vs. these
numbers from an August 2003 survey
http://www.webservicessummit.com/Trends/ComputingTrends_part2_files/slide0241.htm

That page reported C in fifth place, significantly behind Java and Visual Basic.

The TIOBE data shows C as being on the uptick and in first place.
It's worth noting Google reports 18 million hits for either of these searches:

c programming -tv
"(c)" programming -tv


-------------------------
Google hits (Nov. 2003)
--------------------------
Java                         51,600,000
Perl                         38,800,000
Visual Basic             36,200,000
C++                        33,600,000
SQL                        29,300,000
Javascript                20,100,000
FORTRAN              7,720,000
Python                      5,200,000
Pascal                      3,760,000
COBOL                  2,550,000
Ada                         2,380,000
awk                         1,440,000




an interesting beauty-contest:



======== Ken North ===========
www.WebServicesSummit.com
www.SQLSummit.com
www.GridSummit.com

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