Thread: The most popular programming language

Quote: Originally Posted by Bodsda Is anyone else surprised that HTML, assembly, VB or mono is not there? VB is there. It's the 5th down. And isn't mono just a platform?

Quote: Originally Posted by RocketRanger Assembly yes, but html no as it is a markup language. Not a programming language. Although, one could consider HTML as a pure-declarative language... I wouldn't be *that* sure on HTML/XML's nature... Of course they aren't Turing complete on their own, but they do have interfaces to other languages to get that Turing-completeness... And then I may ask, a webpage written in HTML that uses...

Again, instead of retyping much of what has been said before about language ease and capabilities, I just refer to here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=851794

Quote: Originally Posted by Bodsda Is anyone else surprised that HTML, assembly, VB or mono is not there? Assembly yes, but html no as it is a markup language. Not a programming language.

Quote: Originally Posted by JordyD I disagree. Even if the language was platform-specific, it would still IMO be a fair comparison because the platform-specificness is one of popularity's factors. It's a big factor, and it shouldn't be ignored because it might give a negative light to the language's popularity. But in any case, VB, C#, and the other .NET languages aren't platform-specific. With the advent of mono,...

Is this credible ? http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/conte...pci/index.html

It's only the top 20 of today, so no, I'm not surprised that ASM isn't there. Neither is COBOL. Mono is covered by C#, at number 7. The surprise for me is ABAP, which I'd never heard of before.

Quote: Originally Posted by Copernicus1234 Strange that C and C++ are still that popular. Its not like most applications gain anything from being written in C/C++. Only makes them harder to understand, write and debug. Well according to the website around 27% of application are being written in C and C++. So most applications are not being written in C/C++. I guess this is still fairly substantial and it is possibly because a business may use...

Since the speed vs. readability for C is still substantially higher than other languages that trade off between the two, it is still a good option to code in, and the Unix/Linux OS is written in C, so are most other operating systems, so it is not as much of a suprise that it is still 1st/2nd for so long

I think it seems reasonable. But I'm surprised they don't consider MySQL? Technically its the programmer gateway to interact with DB, and could very well be considered a language.