[Info-vax] Java on VMS, was: Re: So is there still a hobbyist program or not

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/20/2019 11:15 PM, Richard Maher wrote:
> On 20/07/2019 8:13 pm, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 7/19/19 9:24 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> A bit of fun only slightly related.
>>>
>>> I came to think of: what JVM language would the programmers
>>> of the traditional VMS languages pick.
>>>
>>> My best guess:
>>>
>>> Cobol -> Java
>>
>> Considering that the two have absolutely nothing in common, why?
> 
> They were once extremely popular and are now both dead.

Cobol and Java are dead in rather different ways.

A quick search at dice.com (big US job site) shows:

Java        14767
JavaScript  11907 (node.js 863)
C#           6273
Python       5824
C++          5151
C            5117
Ruby          993
PHP           938
Scala         433
VB            334
Cobol         228
Kotlin        135
Groovy         89
Fortran        34
Delphi         33

:-)

Arne