claird / lairds.com (Cameron Laird) wrote in message news:<v2ekbhldaj4mf0 / corp.supernews.com>...
> In article <f51c02db.0301161617.3622cfaa / posting.google.com>,
> dambalaMaster <dorli / hotmail.com> wrote:
> >does anyone know which is the most popular unix scripting language?
> >
> >xp829
> 
> Yes.  Several hundreds of thousands of people know, and,
> between them, they only come up with about two dozen
> different answers.


Accordind to DICE/monster, Perl IS the hands-down winner. Larry gets
the prize haha.. Although javascript is frightenly close. Take heart
though Perlistas- now that the DOJ ordered Mickeysoft to support java,
it'll be worthless to 90% of the technical community. The
business-geeks will love it though...


>               monster.com dice.com %
>
>  SQL          5000        2486     24.06%
>
>  ASP          2156        2480     14.90%
>
>  Java         2664        1862     14.55%
>
>  C++          2046        1480     11.33%
>
>  Visual Basic 2037        1095     10.07%
>
>  Perl         925         548      4.73%
>
>  Javascript   914         489      4.51%
>
>  Cobol        595         532      3.62%
>
>  SAS          805         269      3.45%