the author was not familiar with web development -- rather he took some
poll results (from poorly-framed questions) and mashed some
statistics.
consider this paragraph:
"In keeping with our respondents' preference for Web-based interfaces
over client-server designs, support for PHP remains strong.
What does that mean?
Similarly, more survey participants cite _javascript_ than any other
scripting language, followed closely by Unix shell scripting.
For what? Yes, most web pages contain some _javascript_, but they aren't
generated or served with _javascript_ -- and Unix shell scripting---
c'mon?
Overall, 48 percent of respondents say they will increase usage of Web
scripting languages over the next year. But the big winner this time
around is the object-oriented scripting language Python, which saw a 6
percent gain in popularity, almost doubling last year's results.
I think that _javascript_, Perl, PHP, VBS, CFML are all buried in this
category -- and I would be surprised if Python were the fastest-growing
choice for scripting language
Dick
On Sep 30, 2004, at 7:46 AM, Earl, George wrote:
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/09/24/39FErrdev_1.html
>
> "What do developers want?
> This year's programming survey reveals developers' conservative side.
> Now
> that they've embraced Web development and picked their favorite tools,
> they're not budging"
>
> Not one mention of CF anywhere in this article. Maybe they lumped it
> under
> 'Other interpreted languages'. Kind of disappointing . . .
>
> George
>
>
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