Sep 22
It is always fun to watch the various programming contests that happen every year.
In this Ant contest the judges had interesting things to say:
“Java and C++ are very suitable for rapid prototyping.”
“Haskell is the language of choice for discriminating hackers!”
“Haskell and C++ are fine programming tools for many applications.”
And in the language statistics:
| 25 | C++ |
| 24 | OCaml |
| 23 | hand coded |
| 21 | Java |
| 20 | Haskell |
| 16 | Python |
| 15 | C |
| 12 | Lisp |
| 11 | Perl |
| 9 | Scheme |
| 8 | unknown |
| 7 | C# |
| 5 | Ruby |
| 5 | Pascal |
| 2 | SML |
| 2 | Basic |
| 2 | m4 |
| 1 | Mercury |
| 1 | Scala |
| 1 | Erlang |
| 1 | Tcl |
| 1 | D |
| 1 | Alice |
| 1 | GNUepsilon |
| 1 | Nemerle |
| 1 | bash |
| 1 | Revolution |
| 1 | Smalltalk |
Now, it doesn’t make sense to try to take these stats and make comparisons to The Real World. I don’t think a huge group of people are coding in OCaml ;)
It does show you that there are MANY good languages out there. You can “get the job done” in many of them, and other things are more important that the actual language that you use.
September 22nd, 2004 at 12:24 pm
A quote from one of the contestants: “Yippee! My Haskell / Scheme / 0Caml solution won a prize! Now if I could just find a job…”