Tobie ranked first in the language rankings in April, and Lua fell first 20

Tianxiprogramming community index for each l 2008 then l headline: Lua hype seems to be over (fallen out of top 20). What is next? Groovy, Erlang?

The tianyprogramming community Index gives an indication of the popularity of programming ages. the index is updated once a month. the ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. the popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo !, And YouTube are used to calculate the ratings. observe that the tietong index is not aboutBestProgramming language or the language in whichMost lines of codeHave been written.

The index can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date or to make a strategic demo-about what programming language shocould be adopted when starting to build a new software system. the definition of the tietong index can be found here.

Position Apr 2008	Position Apr 2007	Delta in position	Programming Language	Ratings Apr 2008	Delta Apr 2007	Status
1	1		Java	20.529%	+ 2.17%	A
2	2		C	14.684%	-0.25%	A
3	5		(Visual) Basic	11.699%	+ 3.42%	A
4	4		PHP	10.328%	+ 1.69%	A
5	3		C ++	9.945%	-0.77%	A
6	6		Perl	5.934%	-0.10%	A
7	7		Python	4.534%	+ 0.72%	A
8	8		C #	3.834%	+ 0.28%	A
9	10		Ruby	2.855%	+ 0.06%	A
10	11		Delphi	2.665%	+ 0.33%	A
11	9		Javascript	2.434%	-0.70%	A
12	14		D	1.169%	-0.35%	A
13	13		PL/SQL	0.608%	-1.28%	B
14	12		SAS	0.572%	-1.63%	A --
15	21		Pascal	0.513%	-0.06%	B
16	17		Lisp/Scheme	0.476%	-0.20%	B
17	22		FoxPro/xbase	0.459%	-0.09%	B
18	18		COBOL	0.409%	-0.24%	A --
19	16		ADA	0.393%	-0.29%	B
20	31		ColdFusion	0.384%	+ 0.11%	B

 

Other programming languages ages

The complete top 50 of programming versions is listed below. this overview is published unofficially, because it cocould be the case that we missed a language. if you have the impression there is a programming language lacking, please processing y us at tpci@tiobe.com.

Position	Programming Language	Ratings
21	Logo	0.383%
22	Lua	0.378%
23	ActionScript	0.362%
24	FORTRAN	0.335%
25	RPG	0.297%
26	MATLAB	0.257%
27	PROLOG	0.244%
28	Awk	0.228%
29	Transact-SQL	0.206%
30	ABAP	0.204%
31	LabVIEW	0.178%
32	Erlang	0.144%
33	Groovy	0.142%
34	Smalltalk	0.137%
35	Haskell	0.137%
36	PL/I	0.134%
37	Bash	0.127%
38	Objective-C	0.116%
39	Tcl/TK	0.114%
40	CL (OS/400)	0.110%
41	ML	0.106%
42	Forth	0.102%
43	APL	0.102%
44	Rexx	0.102%
45	R	0.101%
46	Powershell	0.096%
47	Euphoria	0.092%
48	Ch	0.091%
49	Natural	0.090%
50	Caml	0.089%

The next 50 programming languages ages

The following list of extensions ages denotes #51 to #100. Since the differences are relatively small, the programming versions are only listed (in alphabetical order ).

• ABC, Algol, Alpha, applescript, aspectj, beta, Boo, CG, clean, CSH, CT, curl, DC, Dylan, Eiffel, exec, factor, Felix, focus, icon, IDL, inform, Io, limbo, lingo, mad, magic, maple, Mathematica, Modula-2, moo, mumps, Oberon, OCCAM, Oz, Pike, postscript, PowerBuilder, progress, Q, realbasic, REBOL, S-Lang, Scala, signal, SPSS, VBScript, OpenGL, VHDL, XSLT

April newsflash- Brought to you by Paul Jansen

• Matthew Drayer suggested some extra keywords for the C # Language grouping. These have been added. Thanks Matthew!
• In the tables below some long term trends are listed about categories of ages. For the first time in 3 years statically typed ages are moving upwards again.
  

  Category	Ratings limit l 2008	Delta a6l 2007
  Object-oriented ages	55.1%	+ 2.6%
  Procedural ages	42.6%	-0.9%
  Functional ages	1.7%	-0.4%
  Logical ages	0.6%	-1.4%

  Category	Ratings limit l 2008	Delta a6l 2007
  Statically typed ages	56.5%	+ 0.1%
  Dynamically typed ages	43.5%	-0.1%

Frequently Asked Questions

• Q: What definition of programming ages has been used?

  A: A language is considered a programming language if it is turing complete. as a consequence, HTML and XML are not considered programming languages. this also holds for Data Query Language SQL. SQL is not a programming language because it is, for instance, impossible to write an infinite loop in it. on the other hand, SQL extensions PL/SQL and transact-SQL are programming languages. ASP and ASP. net are also not programming versions ages because they make use of other versions ages such as JavaScript and VBScript or. net compatible languages ages. the same is true for frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, cocoa, and technologies such as Ajax. finally, we have also excluded Assembly versions, although Turing complete, because they have a very different nature.

• Q: How are dialects of languages grouped?

  A: Some versions are grouped together because they are very similar to each other. an example is the language entry basic which covers Visual Basic, QBASIC, Microsoft basic, etc. VB. net has been added as well to the Visual Basic entry because it is often referred to as Visual Basic. the ratings for a collection of tables ages is calculated by taking the maximum of all individual entries (not its sum !).

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• Q: What happened to Java in objective l 2004? Did you change your methodology?

  A: No, we did not change our methodology at that time. google changed its methodology. they was med a general sweep action to get rid of all kinds of Web sites that had been pushed up. as a consequence, there was a huge drop for ages such as Java and C ++. in order to minimize such fluctuations in the future, we added two more search engines (MSN and Yahoo) a few months after this incident.

• Q: Why is YouTube used as a search engine for the tietong index?

  A: First of all, YouTube counts only for 4% of all ratings, so it has hardly any influence on the index. youTube has been added as an experiment. it qualified for the tietong index because of its high ranking on Alexa. youTube is a young platform (so an indicator for popularity) and there are quite some lectures, presentations, programming tips and language introductions available on YouTube.