These are discouraging stats to Perlistas & Pythonistas...

[llewelly]

Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:

> Robert Oschler wrote:
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> > That's right, almost a 20 to 1 loss of job reqs in C++, and 10 to 1 in Java.
> > Also note, Java is now in the lead over C++
> > 
> > I hate the dot-bust.
> 
> Maybe these stats say more about dice.com itself than about the 
> state of the economy.  Are the numbers reflected in other sites?
> Or is dice.com *the* place to go, so we can take it as representative?
*shrug*

Of all the software development jobs I've had, *none* appeared on
    dice.com.

And I've used perl at every software development job I've had, though
    none of them listed perl as a requirement, or even as a desirable
    skill.