Anand,<br>I have been tracking TIOBE for a while and have a couple of blogs on it. They do explain their methodology here:<br><br><a href="http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm">http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm</a><br><br>Dorai<br><a href="http://www.thodla.com">
www.thodla.com</a><br><br>P.S: <a href="http://dorai.wordpress.com/?s=%22programming+language+trends%22">http://dorai.wordpress.com/?s=%22programming+language+trends%22</a><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 3, 2008 6:56 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai <
<a href="mailto:abpillai@gmail.com">abpillai@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">A few more observations...
<br><br>o The language "D" is slowly on its way up.<br>o Lua has the fastest growth from posn 46 to posn 20!<br>o Contrary to popular jokes, COBOL is still alive and in fact growing :D<br><br>This validates my theory that the very high level language trio of
<br>Python, Ruby,PHP<br>and its associates Lua etc are the future languages to look out for.<br><br>And "D" looks set to be the C++++ for the future. (the ++ is no typo!)<br><br>I invite you to draw your own observations. Btw, the TIOBE index is
<br>the popular programming language index on the web. I am not<br>sure what methods they use to calculate these numbers or how scientific<br>they are...<br><br>--Anand<br><br>On Jan 3, 2008 6:47 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai <
<a href="mailto:abpillai@gmail.com">abpillai@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> The TIOBE programming languages community index {<a href="http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm" target="_blank">http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm</a>}<br>
> shows that Python has gone a step higher in Dec 07 when compared to Dec 06.<br>><br>> Python was at position 7 in 06 and now it is at position 6. Ruby has jumped<br>> two notches from position 11 to position 9.
<br>><br>> Other interesting trends is that Java has managed to keep the top-spot<br>> while C++ is on a downward trend. It is also interesting to see the drop<br>> in Perl - I guess a lot of Perl programmers are moving to Ruby or Python :)
<br>><br>> The chart below shows the long term trends. A quick look provides<br>> some interesting observations.<br>><br>> o C++ has been on a downward slope since 2005<br>> o The Java graph has an overall negative trend since 2001, but
<br>> has numerous large peaks and troughs with the most recent<br>> being an upward growth. In general the growth has been flat<br>> since mid 2005<br>> o Perl is clearly on an downward trend<br>> o PHP is overall on an upward trend
<br>> o Python had a dramatic peak in early-mid 2004 which spiked<br>> its popularity (I wonder what caused it!) which it has managed<br>> to improve further.<br>> o Ruby has had a major surge in late 2006-2007 and is now
<br>> almost equaling Python though the growth rate of Python is<br>> slightly more than that of Ruby<br>> o Visual Basic is on an overall flat trend since 2002 managing to<br>> keep its space and actually growing in 2007
<br>><br>> Good news for Python programmers ... The full report will be<br>> released some time soon.<br>><br>> --<br>> -Anand<br>><br><font color="#888888"><br><br><br>--<br>-Anand<br>_______________________________________________
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