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02.09.06
C Programming Jobs Not Trending Downward
 By
David A. Utter
It's all over for C. Ruby and Python have replaced C as the programming language
of choice for developers who aren't churning out Visual Basic daily. At least,
that's what the rumor mill suggests.
The awful truth about C programming can be found online, by anyone with a few
minutes to search. C programming jobs have entered the La Brea tar pits, where
Internet time and the elements of other languages will combine to drag them to
a slow death.
Before you break out that flamethrower, it's not me saying this. It's the buzz,
the whispers, the trendy Web 2.0 developers, talking about the demise of poor
unlamented C programming.
The searches don't bear out a demise of C programming demand, at least not today.
So how do the job markets compare for C, Python, and Ruby? Actually, it isn't
even close right now.
In a purely unscientific exercise, I performed some searches at the job vertical
search engine SimplyHired, which returns
results from a variety of sources.
For aspiring Ruby programmers, a whopping 325 job postings appear, 123 of which
were listed as full-time gigs. That's a nationwide search of the United States.
Python fares better, with 2,322 job listings and 890 of them full-time. Forget
about being the top Python snake-handler at Google, though. They hired Guido
van Rossum, Python's inventor, in December 2005.
C programming? Try 23,770 listings, 10,008 full-time ones out of that group. About
a third of those postings mention Java as well, in 7,801 total listings with 3,332
full-timers in the bunch.
I know there will be people who will take issue with the programming market and
job availability. If you're a programmer with a particular point of view on the
job market for your skills, tell me more on WebProWorld.
I would like to revisit this topic again.
About
the Author:
David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business.
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