Re: New IEEE Language Popularity Ratings

[Serge Robyns <serge.robyns@gmail.com>]

On Friday, 29 July 2016 14:37:21 UTC+2, brbar...@gmail.com  wrote:
> On Friday, July 29, 2016 at 2:41:07 AM UTC-4, Jerry wrote:
> > Try setting sliders related to people seeking help--Google and both Stack Overflows, for example--to zero, and Ada moves up a lot.
> 
> One other factor may be of interest in thinking about these ratings:
> the importance of libraries for current ways people build software.
> The tendency appears to be to select standard libraries and hope they
> remain stable enough to serve over a reasonable length of time.  Once
> people get used to using this approach, they don't write as much code
> themselves - they just figure out how to hook in a library to do the 
> work.  I suppose you could call it the "cut and paste" approach to
> developing software.
> 
> Bruce B.

Is this not the whole purpose of reusable libraries? Otherwise we will all still program in assembly language and write our containers the hard way for example ....

And yes this is the main driver to choose a programming environment in the field of general programming.  Writing bindings is a "patch" to have access to those libraries.  Companies prefer to pay people to do "new" things not to "reinvent" the wheel.