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By: A Year in the Life of CaffeinatedCoder: Part 1 | Caffeinated Coder

A Year in the Life of CaffeinatedCoder: Part 1 | Caffeinated Coder — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:33:23 +0000

[...] The Post That Launched a Thousand Flames – After getting roughed up a bit on Reddit for a post on programming language trends, I start wondering why .NET developers get no love in the industry and end up writing a post [...]

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:27:56 +0000

Clarifiying my post: “Further development” means significant enough to create a shortage of C developers. Do I work on that next degree or dust off my K&R book?

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:22:59 +0000

Thanks Russell for the blog and good discussion! One thing I keep wondering about is whether or not the higher level languages (Java, C#, Perl) and the libraries/objects upon which they depend can be maintained and enhanced to meet changing demands. Is further development using lower level languages such as C/C required in order to extend the capabilities? I’m not talking about maintenance coding.

By: Bob on Medical Device Software » Blog Archive » Programming Language Popularity

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:04:11 +0000

[...] think The TIOBE index is meaningless. There’s also some good analysis and discussion in Programming Language Trends. I don’t think the index is meaningless, but using it for either of the stated purposes [...]

By: Anatomy of a Flame War | Caffeinated Coder

Anatomy of a Flame War | Caffeinated Coder — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:05:38 +0000

[...] the Tiobe index and summarized some of the things that I found surprising about it in this post on Programming Language Trends. The post briefly landed on reddit, at which point some nasty trolls poked fun at it. This caused [...]

By: Russell Ball

Russell Ball — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:41:43 +0000

@Miguel de Icaza – Interesting. I hadn’t thought of that.

As a side note, I really enjoyed listening to the interviews that you did on the DNR podcasts. I am in awe of how fast you’ve been able to implement stuff in Mono and am excited to start experimenting with using it to build apps in .NET for the Mac.

Thanks for the comment and keep up the good work.

By: Miguel de Icaza

Miguel de Icaza — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:41:33 +0000

A problem with this index is that books that cover C# or VB tend to be books about .NET, not really about a particular language. While books about Java APIs and Java technologies have the name Java on their title.

If you repeat the same queries that they do for evaluating the popularity of a language and replace VB or C# with .NET the results surpass Java.

Miguel

By: Are .NET Developers the American Tourists of the Software Industry? | Caffeinated Coder

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:15:14 +0000

[...] harsh reddit feedback on one of my recent blog posts prompted me to seriously ponder this question and after going through various phases of anger, [...]

By: Russell Ball

Russell Ball — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:27:02 +0000

@Si – Another Ayende fan I see…:-)

Everything you mention is of particular interest to me these days. Yes, having deep pockets sure does have its benefits. At least Microsoft has people who are smart enough to know where to copy from…:-). That trumps many giant software conglomerates.

By: Russell Ball

Russell Ball — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:23:56 +0000

@Rodger – I agree about life being more interesting with more languages floating around. Glad to hear you like the blog enough to want to follow it.