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Survey Says C Dominated New '08 Open-Source Projects
svonkie writes "C overwhelmingly proved to be the most popular programming language for thousands of new open-source projects in 2008, reports The Register (UK). According to license tracker Black Duck Software, which monitors 180,000 projects on nearly 4,000 sites, almost half — 47 per cent — of new projects last year used C. 17,000 new open-source projects were created in total. Next in popularity after C came Java, with 28 per cent.
In scripting, JavaScript came out on top with 20 per cent, followed by Perl with 18 per cent.
PHP attracted just 11 per cent, and Ruby six per cent. The numbers are a surprise, as open-source PHP has proved popular as a web-site development language, while Ruby's been a hot topic for many."
> Historically speaking, there haven't been any useful Microsoft technologies that were or are completely interoperable, stable, relatively bugfree, and secure.
Out of curiosity, which NON-Microsoft technologies fit these standards?
Before you design for reuse, make sure to design it for use.
Oh, and I notice you conveniently forget to mention that Active Directory is considerably better than LDAP for the majority of installations (the system has considerably more features and administration is easier) and that Microsoft's Kerberos extensions are documented in both RFC 3244 and RFC 4757.
Fucking zealots. Grow up.
"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."