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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."
I can C clearly now...
C|N>K
Open-source iPhone development?
Don't blame me, I voted for Baltar.
Jose can you C? Then you've got a job at HP!
I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
Now that's just being subjective!
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Screw all the C variants. Where did Fortran place?
...as measured by lines of code
(ducks)
Actually, C != C++ is undefined behavior.
It's always a long day... 86400 doesn't fit into a short.
COBOL? Anyone? hello?
Where it belonged, behind Lisp!
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
Replying my own - I would prefer to put it this way
Is it cross-platform?
Technically - Yes
Practically - Yes
Out-of-the-box - Not always.
Huh?
Well, while you're at it, why not making a more complete list:
Technically - Yes
Practically - Yes
Out-of-the-box - Not always
In principle - Yes
Philosophically - Yes and No.
Karmically - No
Politically - Yes
Hypothetically - In theory, yes
My last brainfuck website failed because the bf compiler got confused between language operators and XHTML tags, and my client refused to pay the $10,000 brainfuck developer fee anyways. Now I just write them in x86 assembly and my development time is much-improved - I finished a 10 page site in under half a decade!
What's the bet that most of the 7,000 new open source projects were GNOME bindings for "Hello World"?
sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f(q{sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f});
Mi parolas esperanton, diabla malsentemulo!
Victims of 9/11: <3000. Traffic in the US: >30,000/y
From the draft of the next C++ standard, n2798, 1.9 [intro.execution]/16:
Since the built-in == operator doesn't have a sequence point between its argument, the side effect of c++ is unsequenced relative to the value computation of c on the left hand side of the ==, and thus the behaviour is undefined.
Also you find in the latest public draft of the 1998 C++ standard, CD2, 5 [expr]/4:
Note that in c == c++, on the LHS the prior value of c is accessed not in order to determine the new value, but only to compare it with the result of the right hand side. Therefore it was undefined in C++ even back then. I don't have access to any version (draft or otherwise) of the C standard, but I think it's undefined in C, too (although the exact wording probably is different again).
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.