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The Evans Data Corporation predicts that sometime in 2002, about 55% of North American developers will spend at least some time working in Java.
That popularity is coming at the expense of C/C++ and Visual Basic. Throwing salt into the wound, by 2002, Evans Data predicts that only about 51% of programmers to still be working in C and C++ and their numbers will be declining fast.
There's still hope...
I usually don't like discussions of this sort since they tend to turn into religious wars. This article, however, is useful - since it gives the actual reasons that influence programmers decisions. These reasons may not be convincing, or even true, but it seems to me that they pretty much reflect how people decide which languages to use.
Only two days ago someone told me that he simply had to learn C++ in order to have a passing chance of finding a job. Maybe he'd better learn Scheme 
Posted to general by Ehud Lamm on 9/8/01; 11:40:49 AM
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Whither Now C++?
