Irrelevant Programming Languages (Or, Lingo Not to Learn)
Mike Hendrickson has been analyzing some of Q1 2007 computer book sales data, where he's called out languages you'd be best served avoiding if you are young programmer...
"The following languages all sold between 1 and 99 units in Q1 '07. These are what I am considering the irrelevant programming languages."
*Irrelevant* |
U N I T S |
T I T L E S |
M A R K E T S H A R E |
Language |
2006 Units |
2007 Units |
2006 Titles |
2007 Titles |
06Mkt Share |
07Mkt Share |
alice |
64 |
71 |
1 |
2 |
0.01% |
0.02% |
delphi |
345 |
48 |
3 |
1 |
0.07% |
0.01% |
ocaml |
- |
38 |
- |
1 |
0.00% |
0.01% |
jcl |
30 |
33 |
1 |
1 |
0.01% |
0.01% |
realbasic |
- |
31 |
- |
1 |
0.00% |
0.01% |
ada |
26 |
11 |
2 |
1 |
0.01% |
0.00% |
labview |
148 |
- |
1 |
- |
0.03% |
0.00% |
lingo |
30 |
- |
1 |
- |
0.01% |
0.00% |
squeak |
20 |
- |
1 |
- |
0.00% |
0.00% |
rexx |
17 |
- |
1 |
- |
0.00% |
0.00% |
fortran |
16 |
- |
1 |
- |
0.00% |
0.00% |
Via Chad's del.cio.us, via my network.
Update 5/20/07: Tom Morris cautions:
"...be careful about drawing any ‘I shouldn’t learn this’ type of analysis from this. Book purchases correlate with how hard the language is to learn and how fashionable it is and how bad the online or in-built documentation is. For instance, I have bought Eric van der Vlist’s book on XML Schema, but I don’t use XML Schema as much as RELAX NG. XSD is a pig of a schema language, while RNG is great."