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Objective-C Enters Top Ten In Language Popularity

Posted by timothy on from the narrowly-missed-prom-king dept.

bonch writes "Objective-C has entered the top 10 of the Tiobe Programming Community Index. Last year, it was at #39. The huge jump is attributed to its use in iPhone and iPad development. C, of which Objective-C is a strict superset, has reclaimed the #1 spot from Java, which slides to #2. Tiobe also explains how it determines its rankings."

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  1. Tiobe also explains how it determines it rankings by Colin+Smith · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't they just google it like the rest of us?

     

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  2. Re:Where are the C development jobs? by ClosedSource · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unfortunately the number of projects that require people who can program right down to the metal has also been dropping each year.

  3. Objective-C jumped up on the basis by ClosedSource · · Score: 4, Funny

    of all the posts on Slashdot saying how much it sucks.

  4. Most popular language isn't C by AdmiralXyz · · Score: 4, Funny

    If Tiobe's website is to be believed, the #1 programming language right now is Whitespace.

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    1. Re:Most popular language isn't C by blair1q · · Score: 2, Funny

      And the most popular drink is spit, and the most popular song is "why won't this compiiiii-iiiile?" and the most popular slashdot reply is "Page Down".

  5. Re:Where are the C development jobs? by Chris+Burke · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where are the C development jobs? I have strong C skills, but everything is Java/C++/PHP/Ruby/worse.

    Worse? Fortran? Cobol? Ada?

    Dare I say, Intercal?

    Brainfuck?!

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  6. Re:What language for business logic? by spazdor · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pseudocode.

    (where "automatically" = "delegated to PFY intern.")

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  7. Re:Tiobe also explains how it determines it rankin by chargersfan420 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Agreed. My first thought was, "Yay, I'm not the only idiot out there programming with VB!", but after reading that, it's more like, "Yay, I'm not the only idiot out there having problems coding with VB!"

  8. Re:Where are the C development jobs? by Locke2005 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Visual Cobol.

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  9. Re:Tiobe also explains how it determines it rankin by blair1q · · Score: 2, Funny

    But they do count prime-time programming, which is always more popular than the other kinds.

  10. Re:As the Fark crowd likes to say by siloko · · Score: 2, Funny

    Javascript is not a language it is a kind of toffee apple . . .

  11. Re:Strict Superset? by putaro · · Score: 3, Funny

    The whip and high heels.

  12. Re:Tiobe also explains how it determines it rankin by pizzach · · Score: 3, Funny

    ARGH! Stop artificially inflating VB's results by using VB's name twice in a post!

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  13. Re:Tiobe also explains how it determines it rankin by deniable · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, there are a lot of people who prefer VB. Matter of fact, I'm not one.

  14. Re:As an old C programmer, let me say... by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 2, Funny

    Surely, as an old C programmer, you rather intended to say:

    main(argc, argv)
      int argc;
      char **argv;
    {
      stroke_beard();
      printf("w00t!\n");
      triple_contracting_rate();
    }

  15. Re:Where are the C development jobs? by JoeMerchant · · Score: 2, Funny

    The chip vendors won't even send out a salesman if your projected volume is only 100k.

    You must be exceptionally rude to them, I can't get them to stay away and our volume is sub-thousand.