January, 2006.
I do not intend to start any kind of flame war, but only to seek advice
about different technologies concerning which I am mostly ignorant.
I am the database manager for a unit of a major state university. A
part of my job includes building database access and web enabled
applicati
> It might help if you elaborated on what these "doubts" are. It doesn't sound
> like you know any of the languages you've listed and are hoping that somehow
> you'll find one magical beast by cross-posting to a bunch of groups. I don't
> expect you're going to have much luck.
No, we don't know an
I, too, attempt to track the popularity of computer languages, but I
like to look at the job boards. My theory is that the number of
employers looking for particular skills indicates the relative
popularity of the language. This is a somewhat crude measure,
particularly with Microsoft technologies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> At the site I'm working on, you'd see a URL like
> http://www.whatever.com/login or http://www.whatever.com/boards?id=131
> -- how would you count them? Such (extensionless) URLs are far more
> common in the Python, Ruby, and Java world in my experience than the
> PHP, P
On Jul 18, 1:17 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Today, i took sometime to list some major or talked-about langs that
> arose in recent years.
You missed PowerShell and ActionScript.
Languages are just tools. It may have escaped your notice, but it's a
remarkable fact that no
