Re:Java's in third? (Score 1)

Java is a very serious language, and is starting to be used in profitable production systems. Our company use Java for E-commerce applications: communcations brokers, database agents, and a few front-ends. Our products are used for electronic distribution of Airline and travel reservation systems and are high-volume. However, these are fairly new components in our application systems. At lot of parts work in C and will continue to do so for quite a while. The back-end legacy is too immense to port in a quick-delay. There is an on-going re-engineering task force, but it will be a very slow process. As someone else responded later on: the poll is far from fair: a sample of 150 programmers is too small a sample to be representative. take slash-dot for example. The people posting on this thread are a very good random sample of programmers: I'm sure compounding statistics of the use of programming languages here would yield very different, and probably more conclusive results. Then again, you could argue that only *certain* types of programmers subscribe to slashdot, and that these are more likely to favour certain paradigms over others. In any case, you have garantee of random population sample, and a much larger sample group.