[bldg-sim] Survey of programming languages used by BLDG-SIM members

[Jason Glazer]

Here are the responses through 1pm today.  74 people 
responded and the table below shows the frequency of the 
responses (use a fixed pitch font to see the table).

         Often Occasional Infrequent   Once  Never
Java       2       3          7          8     40
C          7       9          6          7     31
C++       12      11          7          6     30
C#         2       0          3          1     49
VB        22      10         18          5     14
FORTRAN   20      14         16          7     12
Pascal     2       2          8          5     41
VB.NET     1       4          2          3     49
COBOL      0       0          0          3     54
Lisp       2       2          3          4     50
Perl       2       4          7          4     43
Python     4       1          3          2     49
JavaScript 0       3          7          6     44

  VB is Visual Basic
  Pascal includes Delphi/Kylix
  Lisp includes Scheme

Conclusions:

a) VB and FORTRAN are the clear favorites and it are 
probably too close to say which is most popular.

b) C++ and C are next.

c) The scripting languages, Perl, Python and JavaScript are 
used by just a few.

d) Microsoft's newest .Net languages C# and VB.net are 
still not used much.

e) COBOL is dead (at least for simulation).

Thanks to everyone for participating.

Jason

On 18 Oct 2005 at 15:41, I wrote:

> Please respond to this very quick survey about what 
> programming languages that you use.
> 
> http://express.perseus.com/perseus/surveys/1734848031/207018
> 2d.htm
> 
> I will be reporting the results next week.
> 
> Thank you very much,
> 
> Jason
> 

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