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Scheme is second in jobs on indeed.com, and the author doesn't realize that his search is off? Erlang could become "the next Python"? What a shoddy article.

Scheme is second in jobs on indeed.com, and the author doesn't realize that his search is off? Erlang could become "the next Python"? What a shoddy article. Edit: I realize that Scheme is second only among the nine niche languages. It's still bogus, as a simple search for scheme on indeed.com shows.

tocomment 16y ago
What did he do wrong?
- Tichy 16y ago
  Erlang will never have the same appeal to the masses as Python, not will it be as efficient at everyday scripting tasks.
- thomas11 16y ago
  Search for the string "scheme", as his trends link shows. That's a pretty common term, while "scala", "lua" etc. have no meaning other than the language, at least as far as a job site is concerned. www.indeed.com redirects to www.indeed.ch here, but there I get nine hits for "scala" and 153 for "scheme". The scheme hits are all "Creates validation scheme with manufacturing site" etc.
- burgerbrain 16y ago
  Scheme is a niche language, and it's niche is education. It's almost never used in industry because it lacks a single popular standard library adds enough functionality to make it practical to use in the real world. In general, you don't write a practical scheme application, you write a practical [insert implementation]-scheme application.
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ced 16y ago
It's only second among the (up-and-coming) languages he chose. Scheme takes only 0.05% of the overall job market. Witness: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=java%2C+C%2C+Python%2C+scheme&l= http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=java%2C+C%2C+Python%2C+sch...
- thomas11 16y ago
  Sure, at least he showed this percentage on the Y-axis. That still means there are five times as many Scheme jobs than for Scala, Groovy, Clojure, Erlang. That's not the case (although I wish it were), just search for "scheme" on indeed.com.
- danieldk 16y ago
  Do the actual search, and look at the results: http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=scheme&l= http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=scheme&l= Not so convincing anymore, right? Obviously, 'scheme' is a generic word, giving many vacancies not related to the programming language Scheme.
  - amttc 16y ago
    There's no good way to easily gauge scheme with this site. At first I typed in "scheme programming language" and came up with 250 results, "scheme lisp" provided something slightly more relevant, but with only 45. I didn't scroll through, but even then they were only asking for people with experience in scheme (among other languages that aren't de jour, like smalltalk).

tocomment 16y ago

What did he do wrong?

Tichy 16y ago
Erlang will never have the same appeal to the masses as Python, not will it be as efficient at everyday scripting tasks.
thomas11 16y ago
Search for the string "scheme", as his trends link shows. That's a pretty common term, while "scala", "lua" etc. have no meaning other than the language, at least as far as a job site is concerned. www.indeed.com redirects to www.indeed.ch here, but there I get nine hits for "scala" and 153 for "scheme". The scheme hits are all "Creates validation scheme with manufacturing site" etc.
burgerbrain 16y ago
Scheme is a niche language, and it's niche is education. It's almost never used in industry because it lacks a single popular standard library adds enough functionality to make it practical to use in the real world. In general, you don't write a practical scheme application, you write a practical [insert implementation]-scheme application.
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ced 16y ago

It's only second among the (up-and-coming) languages he chose. Scheme takes only 0.05% of the overall job market. Witness: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=java%2C+C%2C+Python%2C+scheme&l= http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=java%2C+C%2C+Python%2C+sch...

thomas11 16y ago
Sure, at least he showed this percentage on the Y-axis. That still means there are five times as many Scheme jobs than for Scala, Groovy, Clojure, Erlang. That's not the case (although I wish it were), just search for "scheme" on indeed.com.
danieldk 16y ago
Do the actual search, and look at the results: http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=scheme&l= http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=scheme&l= Not so convincing anymore, right? Obviously, 'scheme' is a generic word, giving many vacancies not related to the programming language Scheme.
- amttc 16y ago
  There's no good way to easily gauge scheme with this site. At first I typed in "scheme programming language" and came up with 250 results, "scheme lisp" provided something slightly more relevant, but with only 45. I didn't scroll through, but even then they were only asking for people with experience in scheme (among other languages that aren't de jour, like smalltalk).