Re:It's all legacy code... (Score 1)

The poll's driven by legacy code, sure. That's a lagging indicator. If they want a leading indicator, look at programming language book sales.

The fact is, C/C++ is used quite a bit in large corporations. VB is a very accessible, easy to learn language and that's why you see it so much in corporate America. But I work for a quite large Internet ecommerce site, and Java has exploded in use here in the last 4 months. Most of our legacy code is C/C++ and Perl, but almost all new development is in Java. We may eventually rewrite the C/Perl stuff, or we may just use it till it dies.