Experimental Physics and
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Chip Watson <[email protected]> · Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:16:56 -0400

Study: Java to overtake C/C++ in 2002

             By Peter Galli
             eWEEK
             August 16, 2001 8:03 AM PT
             SAN FRANCISCO -- Developers using Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java programming language will
             outnumber those using the C/C++ languages by next year, the findings of a series of studies
             conducted by Evans Data Corp. and released late Wednesday show.

             Presenting the firm's research findings at IBM's Solutions technical developers conference here on
             Wednesday afternoon, Janel Garvin, vice president of research at Evans, said that more than half of
             North American developers use Java today, with that number expected to rise by 10 percent next
             year.

             The research also shows that Java usage has been rising at the expense of Visual Basic and
             C/C++. "This means that, for the first time, more North American developers will be using Java than
             Visual Basic or C/C++ next year," Garvin said. "Java usage is even stronger outside North America,
             with almost 60 percent of developers expecting to spend some part of their programming time
             using Java."

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Chip Watson
High Performance Computing Group
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Tel: (757) 269-7101
http://www.jlab.org/~watson

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