In fairness to managers, once someone makes the decision to use some particular language, that's the sort of programmer they hire. It's not that they don't get fired for hiring Java programmers, but that somewhere else someone decided to use Java. That's not an a priori bad decision, so I don't sweat that.

The other interesting note is that .NET and HTML were the big winners in the Dice report (and PHP was curiously absent, and I would really like to see those numbers). Since .NET was up 52% (but hey, going from 1 to 2 will do that), I'm curious about why that is.

What I'd really like to see from the tech jobs is a breakdown of what the tech workers are actually doing instead of what they are using. Since Microsoft pretty much rules the desktop for corporate workers, I expect that workers supporting those workers and their machines would be much more focused on .NET, Java, Visual Basic, and so on. I don't expect Perl to even be close to dominating that arena (just like I don't expect Linux to).

Once we segment "the market", I don't think these numbers will be all that surprising, or worrisome. Either way, I don't blame the managers, and I think using them as a scapegoat doesn't help anyone.

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brian d foy <brian@stonehenge.com>

In reply to Re^2: Are Perl and the dynamic languages dead or what ? by brian_d_foy
in thread Are Perl and the dynamic languages dead or what ? by szabgab

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