how relevant is C today?

[David Reed]

On Apr 8, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Jorge Godoy wrote:

> Mirco Wahab <wahab at chemie.uni-halle.de> writes:
>
>> "The Dice" (find tech jobs) has offerings
>> (last 7 days, U.S. + unrestricted) for:
>>   *SQL     14,322
>>   C/C++    11,968
>>   Java     10,143
>>   ...
>>   Perl      3,332
>>   PHP         730
>>  *Python*     503
>>   Fortran     119
>>   Ruby        108
>>   open*gl      66
>>
>> That is what the industry looks for.
>> You understand the ratios?
>
> Of course!  You need 23 C/C++ people to do the job of one  
> Pythoneer ;-)
>
> -- 
> Jorge Godoy      <godoy at ieee.org>


+1 QOTW

Dave