Preston Crawford wrote:
>
> I know Java has a head start and has the backing of many large
> corporations, so it's perhaps not an apt comparison to make. But I
> like the language. And I like the philosophy of Ruby. To what extent
> this is translating into projects and jobs, however, I have no idea.
>

You might want to learn COBOL.  More transactions are processed by COBOL 
programs than the entire number of transactions that occur over the 
internet.  ;-)

Who knows maybe even this Java thing will take off one day.

--
J Lambert