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From: "Tim Behrendsen" <tim@airshields.com>
Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?
Date: 1996/07/30
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Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote in article
<dewar.838067532@schonberg>...
> Tim Oxler quoted:
> 
> Sentry Market Research surveyed 700 IS mangers what language they used
> for client/server application development:
> 
> Visual Basic    23%
> Cobol           21%
> C++             18%
> C               15%
> 
> and note that client server applications probably have a lower percentage
> of COBOL than all applications, because there are still lots of 
> traditional batch programs being generated in IS shops in COBOL.

I wonder how many of those C++ people actually use the language
features beyond // comments?  The reason I ask this is I see so
many resumes with "C/C++" listed on it (which is a dead giveaway,
since they are very different languages) but when you ask them about
it, they admit "well, I read a book about it.  My previous positions
didn't actually use it".  That makes me think that they people who
are answering this survey checked the C++ box to be "hip".  "Well,
I'm *really* going to crack that C++ book next week and convert
my 100,000 lines over, so I might as well check the box."

I sort of doubt that C++ is being used more than straight C in
anything more than a trivial way.

-- Tim Behrendsen (tim@airshields.com)