2007 Programming Language Rankings

TIOBE Programming Community Index for December 2007

December Headline:python surpasses Perl for the "a" in history

The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication the popularity of programming. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the world-wide availability of skilled engineers, courses and third. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TIOBE index isn't about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have b Een written.

The index can is used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date or to make a strategic about What programming language should is adopted when starting to build a new software system. The definition of the TIOBE index can is found here.

Position DEC 2007	Position DEC 2006	Delta in Position	Programming Language	Ratings DEC 2007	Delta DEC 2006	Status
1	1		Java	20.049%	+0.14%	A
2	2		C	13.173%	-3.44%	A
3	4		(Visual) Basic	10.219%	+1.31%	A
4	5		Php	8.393%	-0.14%	A
5	3		C++	7.871%	-2.54%	A
6	7		Python	4.697%