Sorry I don't know about the languages I cited, so I cannot comment
about their popularity.

I have seen XML (and XSLT) being used heavily in application
integration domain, so I can say XSLT is very very popular. And
application integration is definitely a very big market. Also these
days, XSLT is used a lot in conjunction with XSL-FO. XSLT these days
is also used a lot in Web Services and SOA.

On 9/5/06, juanrgonzaleza@c...
> Mukul Gandhi said:
> > I feel, the list at the site is biased towards XSLT. XSLT should be
> > among 1st 25 I feel.
> >
> > Among 1st 50 languages, the presence of "SAS, D, MATLAB, Logo,
> > Natural, Maple" cannot be above XSLT.
> >
> > This is my view. I would like to see some discussion about this here.
>
> I simply can cite the popularity index, i do not know how accurate it is.
>
> Maybe TIOBE methodology is good enough, maybe it is not. However, without
> detailed analysis i may accept it.
>
> From an academic point of view I can say that Matlab 'is' taught in almost
> any enginnering course here. With basics of Mathematica/Maple being
> obligatory in certain scientific courses (e.g. advanced chemical
> thermodynamics). Whereas nothing of XSLT.
>
> Programmers? yes, they learn XSLT togheter visual basic, C Java -lots of
> Java-. Logo continue being very very popular for educative purposes.
>
> Academia cannot be representative of rest of community but maybe TIOBE
> methodology is accurate enough after all.
>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Mukul Gandhi
> >
> > http://gandhimukul.tripod.com
>
>
> Juan R.
>
> Center for CANONICAL |SCIENCE)


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Mukul Gandhi

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