[FRIAM] Tiobe Programming Language Index

[Russell Standish]

Looks like VB and PHP have overtaken C++ in third spot. But these
languages aren't really competitors of C++, which are really C#, Java
and to a certain extent C.

D will probably be my next language, but it will probably need to get
way more popular before I make a switch to it :)

On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 09:25:39PM -0600, Owen Densmore wrote:
> Always fun to see the programming language index now and again:
>    http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
> 
> Amazing to see VB is up 3.5%, while C++ is down .8% and Python is  
> moving up .7% .. and the big surprise for me with AJAX being such a  
> Big Thing is Javascript down quite a bit.
> 
> Nice to see D doing well, still in the top 20, and actually at number  
> 12 already.
> 
> Naturally, Java is still number 1, at 20.5%, up 2.17% over the year.
> 
>     -- Owen
> 
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