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Programming Language Wars, Part One

// March 7th, 2007 // Technology

Tim O’Reilly has an article on O’Reilly Radar entitled Programming Language Wars, Part One, where he discusses books sales on the major programming languages.

Interestingly, book sales in those areas fell overall YoY for the last year, with the exceptions being Actionscript (Javascript for Flash), JavaScript, Ruby, and SQL. JavaScript was up sharply, driven (as he says) by the interest in Ajax programming.

Even my beloved PHP was off, but then why would anyone buy a book when the online docs are some of the best in the industry?