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

[Richard Maher]

On 21/07/2019 10:44 pm, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

let me guess; a search for "java" also returns "javascript"?