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by brentashley 5050 days ago
The list of languages covered made me look at the date on the article. I was almost certain it would be pre-y2k.

Sounds like a blinkered enterprise Java-centric worldview to me. To have ASP as the only scripting environment listed is just plain crazy in 2012. If you're going to include scripting at all, where are Ruby, Python, Perl, PHP, Javascript? If you want to talk about the productivity boost from high-level languages, you have to include these.
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bunderbunder 5050 days ago
The last paragraph of the article is devoted to explaining why that is.

PHP was still a bit surprising, but the answer might be in the list there, too. Any list that ranks classic ASP, COBOL, and C# has to be working with source data that represents a very particular and non-representative corner of the software industry. Of course with a chance to look at that data costing €5,200 we can probably only speculate. . .

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brentashley 5050 days ago
As was softbuilder, I was motivated to ABORT before the last paragraph - thanks for persevering for the team!

Reminds me of the Monty Python killer joke sketch where the joke is translated by a team of people line by line.

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