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A friend and I were chatting and the question of how many people
that own PCs do any of their own programming?  This question could 
be answered in a number of ways depending on what you consider 
"programming".  In this case lets define programming as the use of
a language such as BASIC, Pascal, C, COBOL, Lisp and the like.  Things
such as DBase don't count.  There is also the question of just who we 
want to include in our group of users.  Should people like secretaries 
who use a PC to do word processing and spread sheets be counted?  Should 
people that are requiered to program (like students) be counted?  
I dunno...

Lets do this:  What percentage people that buy a PC of any type for home 
use end up writing their own programs in one of the above mentioned 
languages?  And, what percentage use a language other than BASIC?

My guesses (I really have nothing to base this on):
   all languages: 20%
   all languages excluding BASIC: 10%

Your guess?  Comments?  Flames?

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