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[News] O'Reilly: PHP on the Rise

PHP Becoming Mainstream

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| I was reviewing data about PHP in our Bookscan data mart the other
| day, and was really struck by how much the sales mix has changed in
| the past year. Here are the top ten PHP books in the first quarter
| of this year vs. the first quarter of last year.
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http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/04/php_becoming_ma.html


Related:

Developers Embrace Java, Drop Visual Basic 

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| Use of Visual Basic has dropped 35% since the spring, says a
| poll of more than 430 North American developers done by research
| company Evans Data.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Developers have abandoned Microsoft's Visual Basic in droves
| during the last six months, and they're using Java more than any
| other development language, according to a recently published
| survey. 
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http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196600515


Study: Developers Favor Linux

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| "Regardless of what kind of developer you are, you're still trying to
| make a living, and target the operating system that?s controlling the
| market."
| 
| However, in the most recent survey, the developers' forecast of their
| target platform has changed. For the first time, these developers said
| that in the next 12 to 18 months they expect to be developing more Linux
| apps than Windows apps. 
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3645766


How many Microsofties does it take to implement the Off menu?

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| Every piece of evidence I've heard from developers inside Microsoft
| supports my theory that the company has become completely tangled up in
| bureaucracy, layers of management, meetings ad infinitum, and
| overstaffing. The only way Microsoft has managed to hire so many people
| has been by lowering their hiring standards significantly...
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http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/24.html


TIOBE Programming Community Index for November 2006

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| Java           20.400%  
| C              17.198%         
| C++            11.055%         
| (Visual) Basic 9.470%  
| PHP            9.209%  
| Perl           6.228%  
| Python         3.641%  
| C#             3.023%  
| JavaScript     2.310%  
| Delphi         2.252%  
| SAS            2.210%  
| Ruby           1.717%  
| PL/SQL         1.223%  
| D              0.684%  
| ABAP           0.637%  
| Lisp/Scheme    0.586% 
| COBOL          0.564%  
| Ada            0.546%  
| Pascal         0.516%  
| Visual FoxPro  0.431% 
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http://www.tiobe.com/index.htm?tiobe_index

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