C/C++ Back On Top of the Programming Heap?

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @02:11AM from the where's-the-future's-market? dept.

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."

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Re:Eh? by FrootLoops · 2012-04-24 02:37 · Score: 5, Informative

The site was loading very slowly so I scraped the 2012 rankings for the curious but impatient:
1 - C - 17.555%
2 - Java - 17.026%
3 - C++ - 8.896%
4 - Objective-C - 8.236%
5 - C# - 7.348%
6 - PHP - 5.288%
7 - (Visual) Basic - 4.962%
8 - Python - 3.665%
9 - JavaScript - 2.879%
10 - Perl - 2.387%
11 - Ruby - 1.510%
12 - PL/SQL - 1.373%
13 - Delphi/Object Pascal - 1.370%
14 - Visual Basic .NET - 0.978%
15 - Lisp - 0.951%
16 - Pascal - 0.812%
17 - Ada - 0.783%
18 - Transact-SQL - 0.760%
19 - Logo - 0.652%
20 - NXT-G - 0.578%