From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a850d20bfa8f3a85 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.75.170 with SMTP id d10mr16732245pbw.6.1326285161777; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:32:41 -0800 (PST) Path: lh20ni167259pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:32:41 -0600 User-Agent: NewsTap/3.5.1 (iPad) From: Martin Dowie Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <18302053347960333.907661martin-re.mo.ve.thedowies.com@news.btinternet.com> Subject: Re: C++ on the Down Slope? References: <1kdog45.122iy7ikvhb9zN%csampson@inetworld.net> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:32:41 -0600 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-VeCztKLlK8S38H6dlgmh1IKUj2QzMMDy43I1p7Q/KvXJG2edn2nlmaQrjfi4Qiq9WQlAqAIzgirG3Ty!X4H6HR3chfKzPVx1UFSqt4z4EQqXOvZnAi0MutnxFosE7KJ8kW2npla0m7WgxOu4nHFKYEOyg9oJ!UDwPlukc+dy5N64h0HMRXXUa+hsEtB56mWxcxs/SVKsB X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1747 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2012-01-11T06:32:41-06:00 List-Id: Charles H. Sampson wrote: > According to a recent email from LinkedIn, 488,992 people have "C++ > skills" and this is an 8% decrease since last year. Could this be an > indication that the enemy is faltering? > > No, there's no indication of how they came up with 488,992. > > Charlie No, that's mirrored by http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html and http://lang-index.sourceforge.net/. A lot of this seems to be driven by iPad / iOS with Objective-C being the 'winner'. -- Martin -- -- Sent from my iPad