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From: "David Botton" <David@Botton.com>
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Subject: Re: Commentary on Industry Move to C++
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 11:42:46 -0400
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Date: 2001-08-26T11:42:46-04:00

> I don't know what is your industry. But industry in general has
> already moved to Java and VB and will be moving pretty soon to C#.

Perhaps in IT shops (who have never used C/C++ or Ada for the most part),
but not in applications or system development for any significant industry
or market.

> According to recent statistics (don't remember the source - Gartner?...)
> number of programmers using Java is karger than the number of
> programmers using C++

That is because the term "programmer" is used very loosely :-)

David Botton