Re: Delphi book sales in 2007

"Alexandre Machado" <alexandre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

In that site I found a link to another site http://www.langpop.com/
Funny to see that the normalized chart consider Pascal and Delphi distinct
languages. IMO, Delphi is an extension of Pascal once every single line of
Pascal code I've written in college still compiles within Delphi, except
those low level routines (the OS don't let me do it anymore, not the
language itself).
What about VB? VB is a single language? VB6 and VB.NET are the same? Basic
and Visual Basic are the same language? hehehehe
SQL? SQL is a single language? Which SQL? T-SQL, PL-SQL? ANSI SQL?
I've done a little research between my colleagues here about some *super
duper* languages like Erlang, Haskell and Lua. None have ever seen a
single
line of code written in those languages in a *production environment*, and
some of them are working inside some top-5 brazilian banks. So how can
Erlang and Haskell be above Delphi/Pascal in that chart?

On the other hand, I wonder how ActionScript can be so below Delphi. I am
sure there are gross errors in assumptions, but I think Delphi's position
should be lower, not higher.

Google "delphi" returns 75 million hits, "delphi -greece" returns 3.5
million (OK maybe Delphi language is popular in Greece and this penalizes it
unfairly), and that's including the auto parts maker and many other
similarly named but unrelated companies, articles.

Google "ActionScript" returns 17.8 million. I don't think there would be
many false hits.

So, if anything, Delphi is overranked.




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