Re: which language?

beliavsky_at_aol.com
Date: 06/14/04

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    Rolf Magnus <ramagnus@t-online.de> wrote:
    >Howard Kaikow wrote:
    >
    >> It has been alleged that Microsoft Visual Basic (and VBA) are the most
    >> widely used languages due to their popularity in MSFT Windows and MSFT
    >> Office.
    >
    >I doubt that. Visual Basic has no relevance at all outside the Microsoft
    >world. Remember, there are lots of systems not running windows (think
    >mobile phones, TV sets, antiblock sysems in cars, and of course
    >Workstations/Servers not running Windows). I'd say the most used
    >languages are C and C++, which are used a lot within the Microsoft
    >world as well as outside it.

    You seem to be define "use" in terms of the number of machines running programs
    in a certain language, as opposed to the number of people programming in
    it. My company has lots of people who are not in the research or IT departments
    who program, mostly in VBA for Excel, and on occasion in Matlab. Their code
    is not pretty, but their spread*** applications have made the company millions
    of dollars!

    In the research department there may be use of Perl, Python, and Matlab than
    C++.

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