Position | Programming Language | Ratings |
---|---|---|
21 | RPG (OS/400) | 0.570% |
22 | Visual Basic .NET | 0.563% |
23 | Transact-SQL | 0.550% |
24 | R | 0.489% |
25 | Groovy | 0.457% |
26 | SAS | 0.452% |
27 | MATLAB | 0.452% |
28 | ABAP | 0.425% |
29 | Scratch | 0.412% |
30 | PL/SQL | 0.408% |
31 | Haskell | 0.407% |
32 | Logo | 0.402% |
33 | D | 0.399% |
34 | Object Pascal | 0.361% |
35 | Fortran | 0.350% |
36 | Alice | 0.338% |
37 | Forth | 0.335% |
38 | COBOL | 0.326% |
39 | Erlang | 0.301% |
40 | Bash | 0.291% |
41 | ML | 0.289% |
42 | MAD | 0.274% |
43 | APL | 0.272% |
44 | Scala | 0.257% |
45 | F# | 0.247% |
46 | ActionScript | 0.236% |
47 | Smalltalk | 0.233% |
48 | C shell | 0.230% |
49 | CL (OS/400) | 0.226% |
50 | Prolog | 0.225% |
Position Mar 2011 |
Position Mar 2010 |
Delta in Position | Programming Language | Ratings Mar 2011 |
Delta Mar 2010 |
Status |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | Java | 19.711% | +2.20% | A | |
2 | 2 | C | 15.262% | -2.02% | A | |
3 | 4 | C++ | 8.754% | -0.86% | A | |
4 | 6 | C# | 7.210% | +2.95% | A | |
5 | 3 | PHP | 6.566% | -3.34% | A | |
6 | 7 | Python | 5.737% | +1.51% | A | |
7 | 5 | (Visual) Basic | 4.710% | -1.86% | A | |
8 | 12 | Objective-C | 3.518% | +1.55% | A | |
9 | 8 | Perl | 1.969% | -1.85% | A | |
10 | 10 | JavaScript | 1.866% | -0.78% | A | |
11 | 11 | Ruby | 1.498% | -0.83% | A | |
12 | - | Assembly* | 1.345% | - | A | |
13 | 9 | Delphi | 0.997% | -1.69% | A | |
14 | 13 | Go | 0.958% | +0.04% | A- | |
15 | 21 | Lisp | 0.934% | +0.38% | A | |
16 | 24 | Lua | 0.812% | +0.30% | A- | |
17 | 32 | Ada | 0.726% | +0.35% | A- | |
18 | 18 | Pascal | 0.706% | +0.10% | A | |
19 | 38 | NXT-G | 0.640% | +0.34% | B | |
20 | - | Scheme* | 0.634% | - | B |
Programming Language Hall of Fame
The hall of fame listing all "Programming Language of the Year" award winners is shown below. The award is given to the programming language that has the highest rise in ratings in a year.?
Year | Winner |
---|---|
2010 | Python |
2009 | Go |
2008 | C |
2007 | Python |
2006 | Ruby |
2005 | Java |
2004 | PHP |
2003 | C++ |
Categories of Programming Languages
In the tables below some long term trends are shown about categories of languages. Object-oriented statically typed languages have been most popular for more than 5 years.Category | Ratings Jun 2011 | Delta Jun 2010 |
---|---|---|
Object-Oriented Languages | 56.5% | +2.5% |
Procedural Languages | 37.4% | -3.9% |
Functional Languages | 4.6% | +1.4% |
Logical Languages | 1.5% | -0.1% |
Category | Ratings Jun 2011 | Delta Jun 2010 |
---|---|---|
Statically Typed Languages | 64.8% | +2.2% |
Dynamically Typed Languages | 35.2% | -2.2% |