Anand, I have been tracking TIOBE for a while and have a couple of blogs on it. They do explain their methodology here:
http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm Dorai www.thodla.com P.S: http://dorai.wordpress.com/?s=%22programming+language+trends%22 On Jan 3, 2008 6:56 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A few more observations... > > o The language "D" is slowly on its way up. > o Lua has the fastest growth from posn 46 to posn 20! > o Contrary to popular jokes, COBOL is still alive and in fact growing :D > > This validates my theory that the very high level language trio of > Python, Ruby,PHP > and its associates Lua etc are the future languages to look out for. > > And "D" looks set to be the C++++ for the future. (the ++ is no typo!) > > I invite you to draw your own observations. Btw, the TIOBE index is > the popular programming language index on the web. I am not > sure what methods they use to calculate these numbers or how scientific > they are... > > --Anand > > On Jan 3, 2008 6:47 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > The TIOBE programming languages community index { > http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm} > > shows that Python has gone a step higher in Dec 07 when compared to Dec > 06. > > > > Python was at position 7 in 06 and now it is at position 6. Ruby has > jumped > > two notches from position 11 to position 9. > > > > Other interesting trends is that Java has managed to keep the top-spot > > while C++ is on a downward trend. It is also interesting to see the drop > > in Perl - I guess a lot of Perl programmers are moving to Ruby or Python > :) > > > > The chart below shows the long term trends. A quick look provides > > some interesting observations. > > > > o C++ has been on a downward slope since 2005 > > o The Java graph has an overall negative trend since 2001, but > > has numerous large peaks and troughs with the most recent > > being an upward growth. In general the growth has been flat > > since mid 2005 > > o Perl is clearly on an downward trend > > o PHP is overall on an upward trend > > o Python had a dramatic peak in early-mid 2004 which spiked > > its popularity (I wonder what caused it!) which it has managed > > to improve further. > > o Ruby has had a major surge in late 2006-2007 and is now > > almost equaling Python though the growth rate of Python is > > slightly more than that of Ruby > > o Visual Basic is on an overall flat trend since 2002 managing to > > keep its space and actually growing in 2007 > > > > Good news for Python programmers ... The full report will be > > released some time soon. > > > > -- > > -Anand > > > > > > -- > -Anand > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- Dorai Thodla (http://www.thodla.com) US: 650-206-2688 India: 98408 89258
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