Long term growing languages
While last month TIOBE elected Go “language of the year for 2009″, I noticed that, according to their data, only the following languages of the top ten have a positive trend in the long period (2002 – 2009): PHP; C#; Python; JavaScript.
Notes about TPCI 2009-02
The TPCI February Headline is RPG (AS/400) replaces COBOL in top 20 Yesterday I had dinner with some friends and business partners: one of them was an old IBM engineer… and when I say old I mean he started programming in 1966 (!). It was very interesting to converse with someone who thinks that gotos [...]
Notes about TPCI 2008-12
The TPCI December Headline is C and C++ Candidates Programming Language of 2008 The return of these two old lions might be read as a side effect of the current crisis. I mean, are the “two zero” gears all behind us? Are we getting back to critical coding?
Notes about TPCI 2008-11
The TPCI November Headline is Visual Programming Languages Popular (Logo, Alice, NXT-G) Visual programming? Are you on drugs? May I have some? :)
Notes about TPCI 2008-08
The TPCI August Headline is COBOL scores a new all time low You know, the sultry weather of this August is not healthy for woebegone mammoths. :)
Notes about TPCI 2008-05
The TPCI May Headline is PowerShell on its way to the top 20 As you know, I don’t code on Windows regularly :) but after a quick look at this sample screenshot, PowerShell seems to me very… powerful. :) Perhaps a good part of its power resides on its blendable, UNIX-like nature. :)
Notes about TPCI 2008-04
The TPCI April Headline is Lua hype seems to be over (fallen out of top 20). What is next? Groovy, Erlang? Some people here say that Erlang would be the next hype. I don’t know… but if I began to study it then it certainly would be the next hype in a rather short time. [...]
Notes about TPCI 2008-03
The TPCI March Headline is Ruby after 4 months back in the top 10 again My headline is Viewing its graph, I noticed a frightening renaissance of (Visual) Basic. Burp. :)
Notes about TPCI 2008-01
The TPCI January Headline is TIOBE declares Python as programming language of 2007! The reason is Python appeared to have the largest increase in ratings in one year time (…) Chances are high that Python’s star will rise further in 2008, thanks to the upcoming release of Python 3. Unfortunately I don’t have enough time [...]
Notes about TPCI 2007-12
The TPCI December Headline is Python surpasses Perl for the first time in history Let me do one of my well known predictions: Perl might go out from the top ten before 2013.
