C#: Is the Party Over?
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| Conclusion
|
| Is the C# party over? If the plan of C# was to slow the defection of
| Visual C++ developers to Java, then it was certainly better than
| nothing. The long-term savings for Microsoft in sharing a CLR
| between projects was more than worth the initial effort. However,
| C# is still not the de facto choice for Web site or enterprise
| development and other languages such as Python and PHP, which are
| bringing in a new generation of developers who don't have a need to
| migrate Visual C++ applications. C# isn't going anywhere soon but
| its best days may be behind it.
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http://linux.sys-con.com/read/117741_p.htm
On the other hand:
COBOL Today and Tomorrow, Part 1
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| The acronym COBOL has its share of humorous expansions --
| "completely obsolete, burdensome old language" is one -- but if
| you think it's dying, take another look. A Gartner study found
| COBOL in about 75 percent of enterprise business processes,
| acting as the solid, transaction-focused foundation for the
| world's core business processes.
|
| It's no secret that Linux at the server level is growing fast
| in the business world.
|
| It's stable, it's infinitely customizable, it has the kind of
| support that an enterprise demands and its return on investment
| is amazing to people more accustomed to the costs of other
| approaches. So, you find it everywhere these days.
|
| You discover something else everywhere, too: common
| business-oriented language, or COBOL, the computer's
| original business language.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/55216.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
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
Expert Testimony of Ronald Alepin in Comes v. Microsoft - Embrace, Extend,
Extinguish
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| You'll hear some emails read aloud, one of Bill Gates's, an email from
| 1996 about Java, where he says he was losing sleep over how great
| Java was, and you'll see a strategy he suggested -- "fully
| supporting Java and extending it in a Windows/Microsoft way".
|
| [...]
|
| Well, when applets are cross-platform, it expands the number of
| applications that are available to you so you can go to a website.
| And if you have a Linux computer or a Macintosh computer or a Windows 3.1
| computer, you can get an application and it will run.
|
| You don't have to either select a specific application or hope that the
| independent software vendor or the website created the application for your
| platform. So it would increase the number of applications available to you.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070108020408557
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