C Programming Language Back At Number 1

derrida writes "After more than 4 years C is back at position number 1 in the TIOBE index. The scores for C have been pretty constant through the years, varying between the 15% and 20% market share for almost 10 years. So the main reason for C's number 1 position is not C's uprise, but the decline of its competitor Java. Java has a long-term downward trend. It is losing ground to other languages running on the JVM. An example of such a language is JavaFX, which is now approaching the top 20."

Comments

Re:Java

[jcr]

I expect Java to gain ground again as developers create apps for Android phones.

I expect Android to be where the lion's share of Java development happens in the next few years, but I also expect Java to continue to decline.

Java's initial popularity was a combination of marketing hype, and the fact that the world desperately needed an alternative to C++. Once people were weaned off of Stroustrup's mistake, they started looking into other languages as well. My picks for the most important languages ten years from now are C, Python, Objective-C, Ruby, and (regrettably) PHP and Javascript.

-jcr

Re:Java is crap anyway

[dgatwood]

And nothing more nightmarish than bad assembly.

$string = "was born before 1986.";
$string =~ s/w/h/;
$string =~ s/ b/n'/;
$string =~ tr/or/t /;
$string =~ s/(?: (be)|9(\d+))/e$1$2/g;
$string =~ s/n/h/;
$string =~ s/n/h/;
$string =~ s/h/n/;
$string =~ s/h/n/;
$string =~ s/n/h/;
$string =~ s/beft/ard /;
$string =~ s/ e 1/of P/;
$string =~ s/[0-9][[:digit:]]/rl/;

print "Spoken like someone who ".$string."\n";