These are discouraging stats to Perlistas & Pythonistas...

[dsavitsk]

Sara wrote:

> Recent DICE survey resuts:
> 
> 
>>Number of Job Listings by Programming Language (January 3, 2003)
>>

>>
>> Visual Basic 2037        1095     10.07%
>>
>> Python       55          32       0.28%

This says nothing, of course. If the ratio of VB people to Python people 
is 2037 to 54 or greater, then you shouldn't be too worried.  I have no 
idea what the real numbers are, but I would not be surprised if the 
disparity was this large.

-d