Programming Language Popularity Survey

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."

Comments

Missing languages

[omibus]

I think he left out a lot of languages. Delphi should certanly register, as well as a number of scripting languages (vbscript, javascript). It looks like he just picted a subset of languages that he could think of and used those.

I dont consider this to be great research on their part.

Re:Great work on the story, "editors"

[Anonymous Coward]

Javascript is a nicer language than many people realise. Just as Java is a slightly crippled Smalltalk with C-like syntax, Javascript is a slightly crippled Self with C-like syntax. Respectable full-scale applications can be coded in javascript with e.g. IBM Sash.

SkillMarket

[mshiltonj]

Um, I've been tracking this for a while.

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Re:Not very credible

[DavidNWelton]

Hi,

Thanks for your constructive, helpful and anonymous comments...

You state that "SQL doesn't have that many pages because it's independant of the programming language used".

So you are saying that because something is language/implementation independant, it will be less visible on the web? So XML will be less visible than Tcl or Perl, if we had to make a prediction based on your theory? If SQL is used by all those languages, shouldn't its web presence be larger, rather than smaller? What is it about language independance that makes people avoid creating web content about it?

As to SQL "standing on its own", I don't see why one wouldn't want to hear about numbers for it. Nowhere does it say that "people use SQL instead of PHP" or anything silly like that. I include some numbers on SQL usage relative to other systems, nothing more, nothing less. This does not make the data "hopelessly flawed".

COBOL isn't dead

[X-Nc]

This article has already been beaten to death but I wanted to add my useless opinion anyway.

COBOL isn't dead. It isn't just for mainframes either. COBOL is quite alive and kicking. The latest ISO standard for it was just released in 2002. It's got functions, can do OOP (better than C++, BTW) and still can crunch data batter than any other language out there. It's a shame that the preconceptions and stigma perpetuated by people who haven't seen COBOL since 1968 are really hampering the usefulness of this really good langauge to the detriment of every developer in the world.

Disclaimer: The programming I do is 75% php, 10% perl and 15% in shell/awk/grep/whatever. It's just that I have a liking for programming languages in general and like to keep an eye on them. There's a lot of very good ones out there that most everybody misses; icon, Eiffel, Smalltalk, Ada, REBOL, Lua, Dylan...