Re: Ada

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <84rd2f$snm$1@nntp3.atl.mindspring.net>,
  tsikes@netcom.com (Terry Sikes) wrote:
> For one look at "per language" programmer demand, see
> www.lmarkets.com, which seems to show both C++ and Java
considerably
> ahead of VB (of course this is programmer demand, not
programmer body
> count).


Nope, this is does not reflect programmer demand. It simply
reflects the number of jobs that are being offered in this
particular forum. Even if it did reflect programmer demand,
that would say nothing about the supply (ads tend to reflect
the surplus of demand over supply, which has nothing to do
with total market).

There are many sources for this information. One for example,
was a keynote address from Bill Gates at a big conference
(perhaps Comdex?) last year. There he also stated that Delphi
was at 5%, and Java at 9% (he said he did not really believe
the Java figure, that it probably reflected a lot of
experimentation, and given the failure of Java to get a
real foothold in client side programming that sounds right
to me. This same talk put Visual basic at about 50% of
PC development, and that also sounds about right to me,
with C/C++ being about 15%.

Ada did not get mentioned, but even if it was at what
(for me) would seem a very high level of 1% of all PC
development, it would have been under Bill's radar screen :-)

To get a feel for the Visual Basic market, have a look at the
catalogs of Active-X (now COM) components. Yes, these components
can be used in Visual C++ (and for that matter in Ada programs
written with GNAT :-) but the primary use of these components
is in the visual basic world.


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