Mind Tree Popularity of Programming Languages: November 2008
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Loading ...Tiobe Softwares has released rankings of programming languages and popularity of programing languages for the month of November 2008. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings. According to Tiobe few of the major gainer and loosers are
- Java & C Still topping the chart at 1 & 2 respectively
- ActionScript and Logo entered in top 20
- PHP is still stable at 5th place
- Delphi is still in top 10
- Visual basic looses one place to C++
- Python is gaining popularity
- Perl and Ruby goes down by three and two spots respectively
Programming languages last few months rankings:
- Popularity of programming languages for the month of October
- Popularity of programming languages for the month of September
- Popularity of programming languages for the month of August
The index can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date or to make a strategic decision about what programming language should be adopted when starting to build a new software system. The definition of the TIOBE index can be found here.
| Position Nov 2008 | Position Nov 2007 | Delta in Position | Programming Language | Ratings Nov 2008 | Delta Nov 2007 | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |  | Java | 20.299% | -0.24% | A |
| 2 | 2 | | C | 15.276% | +1.31% | A |
| 3 | 4 |  | C++ | 10.357% | +1.61% | A |
| 4 | 3 |  | (Visual) Basic | 9.270% | -0.96% | A |
| 5 | 5 | | PHP | 8.940% | +0.25% | A |
| 6 | 7 | | Python | 5.140% | +0.91% | A |
| 7 | 8 | | C# | 4.026% | +0.11% | A |
| 8 | 11 | | Delphi | 4.006% | +1.55% | A |
| 9 | 6 | | Perl | 3.876% | -0.86% | A |
| 10 | 10 | | JavaScript | 2.925% | 0.00% | A |
| 11 | 9 | | Ruby | 2.870% | -0.21% | A |
| 12 | 12 | | D | 1.442% | -0.26% | A |
| 13 | 13 | | PL/SQL | 0.939% | -0.24% | A |
| 14 | 14 | | SAS | 0.729% | -0.40% | A– |
| 15 | 18 | | ABAP | 0.570% | -0.08% | B |
| 16 | 19 | | Pascal | 0.511% | -0.13% | B |
| 17 | 17 | | COBOL | 0.510% | -0.20% | B |
| 18 | 25 | | ActionScript | 0.506% | +0.04% | B |
| 19 | 23 | | Logo | 0.489% | -0.04% | B |
| 20 | 16 | | Lua | 0.473% | -0.27% | B |
Other Programming languages
The complete top 50 of programming languages is listed below. This overview is published unofficially, because it could be the case that we missed a language.
| Position | Programming Language | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| 21 | Lisp/Scheme | 0.470% |
| 22 | MATLAB | 0.466% |
| 23 | Ada | 0.410% |
| 24 | Fortran | 0.380% |
| 25 | FoxPro/xBase | 0.320% |
| 26 | Prolog | 0.314% |
| 27 | RPG (OS/400) | 0.298% |
| 28 | Awk | 0.256% |
| 29 | LabVIEW | 0.235% |
| 30 | Tcl/Tk | 0.230% |
| 31 | Erlang | 0.220% |
| 32 | Bourne shell | 0.220% |
| 33 | Caml | 0.196% |
| 34 | Alice | 0.188% |
| 35 | PL/I | 0.188% |
| 36 | Haskell | 0.163% |
| 37 | NXT-G | 0.153% |
| 38 | Objective-C | 0.149% |
| 39 | Smalltalk | 0.148% |
| 40 | PowerShell | 0.143% |
| 41 | Groovy | 0.138% |
| 42 | ML | 0.132% |
| 43 | Scala | 0.120% |
| 44 | REXX | 0.119% |
| 45 | Transact-SQL | 0.115% |
| 46 | Forth | 0.114% |
| 47 | Euphoria | 0.114% |
| 48 | CL (OS/400) | 0.111% |
| 49 | Natural | 0.105% |
| 50 | VHDL | 0.105% |
Programming languages long term trends
Following chart represents the long term trends of popular top 10 programming languages
The Next 50 Programming Languages
The following list of languages denotes #51 to #100. Since the differences are relatively small, the programming languages are only listed (in alphabetical order).
- ABC, AD, Algol, Alpha, APL, Applescript, AspectJ, Beta, Boo, C shell, cg, Ch, Clean, cT, Curl, Dylan, Eiffel, Factor, Felix, Focus, Fortress, Icon, IDL, Inform, Io, Lingo, MAD, Magic, Maple, Mathematica, MOO, MUMPS, Oberon, Occam, Oz, PILOT, Postscript, PowerBuilder, Progress, Q, R, REALbasic, Revolution, S-lang, SIGNAL, SPSS, SuperCollider, VBScript, Verilog, XSLT
Long Term Trends for categories of programming languages
The object-oriented paradigm is at an all time high with 57.6%. The popularity of dynamically typed languages seems to be stabilizing (see trend diagram below).
| Category | Ratings November 2008 | Delta November 2007 |
|---|---|---|
| Object-Oriented Languages | 57.9% | +1.6% |
| Procedural Languages | 38.7% | -2.2% |
| Functional Languages | 2.6% | +0.4% |
| Logical Languages | 0.8% | +0.1% |
| Category | Ratings November 2008 | Delta November 2007 |
|---|---|---|
| Statically Typed Languages | 60.0% | +1.2% |
| Dynamically Typed Languages | 40.0% | -1.2% |
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