These are discouraging stats to Perlistas & Pythonistas...

[Sara]

Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote in message news:<x7heckyeti.fsf at guru.mired.org>...
> "Robert Oschler" <Oschler at earthlink.net> writes:
> 
> > I can't look at dice.com anymore, too depressing.  Some appx stats:
> > 
> > Date    C++ jobs    Java jobs
> > 3/2000    42000    31000
> > 10/2003    2200    2800
> 
> Ok, where did you get the numbers for October 2003? Or is that 1/2003
> or 10/2002?
> 
>         Thanks,
>         <mike
>         -- 
> Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org>			http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/
> Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information.

Sorry Mike this is all of the data I have. A friend emailed me this
table in a message and that's what I got. He wanted to "rub it in"
about how I'm "wasting my career" with Perl, PHP, and Python.

The way I look at it, if I was an artiste and everyone was working in
fingerpaints, I'd stil rather work in oils if that was the medium I
preferred. ASP is the fingerpaint, Perl is oils. Hope my ears survive
this quest!

Still, it would be comforting to know that there was a "market" for my
work.

-Gx