Larkware's Reader Survey results
Maestro Gunderloy has released the 'Larkware Reader Survey' results. A sample size of 485 unearthed some interesting results, notably below, which highlights the position of VB6 vis-a-vis VB.NET. Perhaps, the VB6 petition is seriously lacking supporting statistics?
Which (if any) of these languages do you do serious
development work with?
(This was a "pick many" question, so the percentages
add up to more than 100%)
VB 6.0: 148 (31.3%)
VB.NET: 195 (41.3%)
C#: 338 (71.6%)
C++: 134 (28.4%)
Java: 78
(16.5%)
SmallTalk: 3 (0.6%)
Python: 57
(12.1%)
Perl: 33 (7.0%)
PHP: 43 (9.1%)
Ruby:
18 (3.8%)