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Are C and C++ Losing Ground?

Posted by Soulskill on from the lots-of-ground-to-lose dept.

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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  1. Re:C/C++ is dying! by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 5, Informative

    1. Java.....20.5%
    2. C........14.7%
    3. VB.......11.6%
    4. PHP......10.3%
    5. C++.......9.9%
    6. Perl......5.9%
    7. Python....4.5%
    8. C#........3.8%
    9. Ruby......2.9%
    10. Delphi...2.7%

    The other 10 in the top 20 are:
    JavaScript, D, PL/SQL, SAS, Pascal, Lisp/Scheme, FoxPro/xBase, COBOL, Ada, and ColdFusion

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  2. Re:That's a broken way to think of it by wmshub · · Score: 5, Informative

    Duh.

    I think the parent was implying that C often directly maps into assembly language, and he's right. As an embedded programmer, one of the benefits of C is that, other than register selection, I can often tell you exactly what assembly statements will be emitted by a chunk of C code. Often I do use C as a shorthand for assembly.

    Nobody who knows the term "assembly language" will think that C is one. But it's a lot closer than you might think.

  3. Re:That's a broken way to think of it by Schraegstrichpunkt · · Score: 5, Informative

    OK, since there's no C standard type for "32 bit int", what works on this compiler?

    C99 fixed that: #include <stdint.h>, then use either uint32_t or int32_t.

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