By gst
via ifacethoughts.net
Published: Nov 07 2007 / 23:50
Someone has gone through a huge effort to chart out the popular languages. The popularity is measured using various aspects, looking at job postings, number of programming books, most discussed.
For the search results the top 3 ranks are:
1. C
2. Java
3. PHP
The top 3 ranks from the discussion sites are:
1. C
2. Java
3. Python
Some observations from this.
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Firebug Network Monitoring Quick Reference Guide
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Javascript example for selectively displaying particular div based on drop-down selection
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Heuristics, Refactoring and Maintainable Software
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Logic of Lemmings in Compiler Innovation
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Getting Ready for Ruby 1.9
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IT Salaries and Contract Rates Holding Despite Job Losses
Comments
jdh30 replied ago:
Too many of the data sources are extremely biased. Lambda the Ultimate is an extremely obscure academic site primarily about Haskell. Reddit is a news site primarily about Lisp...
estherschindler replied ago:
Well, there are other problems, but the information is still awfully interesting.
I wrote a whole long response but it was too big for a reasonable dzone reply. It turned into a blog entry of my own here: http://advice.cio.com/esther_schindler/is_computer_language_popularity_important
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