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Programming Language Popularity Survey

Posted by timothy on from the logo-also-loses dept.

An anonymous reader writes "David N. Welton yesterday posted a study of the Programming Language Popularity. Is SQL your fave, or perhaps you're interested in the 'Click Price of PHP' or 'Craig's List Jobs'? Needless to say, my favorite languages (Prolog and Common Lisp) did not so much as register on the survey."

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  1. Can't Find the F-Word (i.e. FORTRAN) by reporter · · Score: 4, Funny
    A quick scan of the report indicates that the F-word (i.e. FORTRAN) cannot be found. We are finally ridding ourselves of this albatross.

    Don't get me wrong. I program in FORTRAN for a living, but I have compared it to C and Java. FORTRAN is an ugly language. It fosters the same disgust that x86 assembly code would foster if we lacked compilers and were forced to program in it on a routine basis. FORTRAN is just a bunch of mishmash that has grown to include every interesting feature that catches the fancy of programmers. The current definition of FORTRAN even includes pointers!

  2. Re:Great work on the story, "editors" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Yeah, and so is HTML!

    You can laugh, but according to Google the number of webpages with the word HTML in them is... all of them! Someone call the author, we have a new winner.
  3. Re:What a jerk! by Toresica · · Score: 2, Funny

    So? He said that C is popular.

    I'll believe any article that likes C. :p