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C/C++ Back On Top of the Programming Heap?
Drethon writes "On this day in 2008, a submission was posted that C/C++ was losing ground so I decided to check out its current state. It seems that C has returned to the top while Java has dropped by the same amount, VB and PHP have dropped drastically, C++ is holding fast but now in third place and Objective-C and C# have climbed quite a bit. 2008 data thanks to SatanicPuppy: 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."
So is Lisp in some sort of state of perpetual undeath then?
My two favorite languages aren't dying!
Yes, Perl and Ruby combined have twice the share of python. It's really more like 20 times, since you can get ten times as much done in a single line of perl.
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Home Depot has reported that the hammer has moved up 2 places in the rankings overtaking the Phillips head screwdriver and pliers as the most widely used hand tool. Also moving up in the ranks were the flashlight and the crescent wrench, precipitating the further decline of the Allen wrench and the drill bit in the rankings.
Haha, who still uses the Allen wrench? Clearly the Phillips head screwdriver is superior. Newbs.
Sure. As soon as someone comes up with a language that produces code that runs half way as fast as C on any OS, and that at least pretends to integrate with the rest of the OS. You know, make it nice for everybody else other than developers. Oh, here's a though: how about developers get their heads out of their butts and learn how to be programmers, instead of whining that real languages don't do everything for them?
Switch to Windows. C# and .NET do in fact run at least "half way as fast" as C and integrates with the rest of the OS fine.
In any case, excluding a managed language on the grounds that it is not fast enough sounds like premature optimization to me. Might as well start off writing it all in assembly, since compilers don't always produce the fastest possible code.
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...since you can get ten times as much done in a single line of perl.
Yes and you will be the only human on earth that knows what it does.
That's called "increasing job security".
...since you can get ten times as much done in a single line of perl.
Yes and you will be the only human on earth that knows what it does.
That's why we call it a "write-only" programming language.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
When you write C++ as though it were C++, you get really bad, terribly inefficient code.
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