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[Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Chris Shiflett wrote:

> I love PHP and all, but I find these results hard to believe. Perl
> still seems quite a bit more popular to me. And Java, which I can't
> stand, seems more popular than both PHP and Perl.

I just attended a presentation by Tim O'Reilly where he broke down
computer books sales data by programming language.

I don't remember the exact order, but I believe it went something like
this:

1) Java
2) VB
3) JavaScript
4) PHP? (Maybe C# is 4 and PHP is 5)
...
X) C, C++, C#
...
Y) Perl

PHP books outsell Perl books considerably. The Perl market is in the
toilet compared to a few years ago, while PHP has gone up, up,
up. Non-programming programming langauges, like VB and JS are more
popular than most programmers expect. (Just as how Photoshop is the
best selling computer book subject.)

-adam

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