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    #32
    azwethinkweiz
    Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭azwethinkweiz


    At the mo we're using a combo of C#, VB6 (in the process of rewriting that code in C#), JavaScript etc.
    The company is quite MS oriented so...

    We're using SQL Server 2008 as well.


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    #33
    AnonymousPrime
    Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭AnonymousPrime


    I am a big fan of .Net, everything is already done for you smile.gif

    But I would be very skeptical of any surveys regarding this matter, from tiobe to boards.ie.
    You will only get a subset of reality, and weightings are impossible.

    For example Tiobe rates popularity among learners and breaking technologies. Just look at its rating for cobol which a large number of banks are still built on.
    boards.ie takes a subset of.....you guessed it.....boards.ie users which I would imagine has its demographics.

    (btw, I would say jobs pages are another barometer you can use)


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    #34
    ambasite
    Registered Users Posts: 599 ✭✭✭ambasite


    oooomy wrote: »
    try the firefox selenium remote control - record whatever you need and select export as c# when done.

    yeah, using that at the moment - Selenium IDE / Nunit framework.


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    #35
    Civilian_Target
    Registered Users Posts: 5,618 ✭✭✭Civilian_Target


    I would say Java... but only about 1 day a month where Java is the only language I use!


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    #36
    Casey_81
    Registered Users Posts: 246 ✭✭Casey_81


    AnonymousPrime wrote: »
    But I would be very skeptical of any surveys regarding this matter, from tiobe to boards.ie.
    You will only get a subset of reality, and weightings are impossible.
    ......
    boards.ie takes a subset of.....you guessed it.....boards.ie users which I would imagine has its demographics.

    (btw, I would say jobs pages are another barometer you can use)

    Fair point..

    Although with that said, there is a lot of repetition in the jobs site, so its not easy to determine which adverts are 'real' jobs and which ones are just out to get CV for a profile. (Got stung by recruitment agents a while back - so slightly bitter)


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    #37
    stevenmu
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,689 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    There's other things to take into account too. Assuming that this is all in relation to which is best for jobs, different languages/platforms can be used in different types of roles. My impression is that Java is more typically used for enterprise scale server solutions, .Net for user facing client solutions, C for high performance (games, scientific etc) or embedded, PHP for Internet web apps etc etc.

    Of course these are gross generalisations with tons of exceptions (I've done lots of .Net enterprise work for e.g.), but there's a lot of truth to them as well.


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