Are C and C++ Losing Ground?

Pickens writes "Dr. Dobbs has an interesting interview with Paul Jansen, the managing director of TIOBE Software, about the Programming Community Index, which measures the popularity of programming languages by monitoring their web presence. Since the TIOBE index has been published now for more than 6 years, it gives an interesting picture about trends in the usage of programming languages. Jansen says not much has affected the top ten programming languages in the last five years, with only Python entering the top 10 (replacing COBOL), but C and C++ are definitely losing ground. 'Languages without automated garbage collection are getting out of fashion,' says Jansen. 'The chance of running into all kinds of memory problems is gradually outweighing the performance penalty you have to pay for garbage collection.'"

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um....

[bennomatic]

C-what-what?

Finally

[m50d]

I realize companies can't be jumping to the next big thing overnight, but really, the tradeoff was in favour of garbage collection 10 years ago.

Re:not so..

[PalmKiller]

AC, your an idiot.

I Hope so Too

[turgid]

C is a systems language, and it's very good at it. Gone are the days of 8MHz desktop computers when we needed C for writing applications.

C has its place, and C++ isn't all it's cracked up to be.

I hope they are becoming proportionally less popular than other languages, because otherwise we aren't making progress.

I write C for a living, and enjoy it, but then I do systems level stuff. I would hate to write a modern application in C. It'd be crazy. Java or C# would be pushing it too, they're just not high-level enough.

Time to get a new account

[turgid]

Posts from this one keep getting modded troll and flamebait.

The Jave virtual machine is written

[geekoid]

in what, now?

hmm

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