http://www.tiobe.com/index.htm?tiobe_index

 

 

 

This is an interesting site. It lists the "popularity" of programming languages and organizes it into the top25. It has alot of historical data as well.

 

 

 

I dunno, I don't have much to say, I just found it interesting and was wondering what your opinions are :)

Woot, Python #7

VB at #4 :uhh: Righteo then. Although I'm a bit concerned with Java toping C / C++ too...

It seems I'm safe for my Prgming Courses for Java, C++ and Basic Languages...

VB at #4 :uhh: Righteo then. Although I'm a bit concerned with Java toping C / C++ too...

 

 

 

Last month I wondered why Visual Basic has such a revival. Roderick Rivero send me a plausible explanation. The notion "Visual Basic" is nowadays also used to refer to VB.NET and VB 2005. Internet searches confirm this hypothesis. For this reason we merged the VB.NET entry back again into Visual Basic from this month on.

 

 

 

Thus, (Visual)Basic includes all of the following;

 

Basic, VB.NET, Visual Basic.NET, Visual Basic .NET, Visual Basic 2005, VB 2005, Visual Basic 2003, VB 2003, Visual Basic 2002, VB 2002

 

 

 

So it's standard BASIC, VB, and .NET.

 

 

 

Plus I've got a bunch of friends that are like... obsessed with programming and the like. They say VB is really useful for really short algorithms when they want an easy GUI for it as well. It's sort of a convenience thing - not anything they'd use for a project or whatnot, but for personal use/convenence.

 

 

 

 

 

Although Java is much much slower than C, it's a much better language to learn how to program on, since type-checking is done at compile time, you can fix your errors before your program begins to run. Since C is loosely typed, you could spend hours trying to figure out what your program is because C lets you do crazy stuff like assign integers to booleans.

 

Plus they're using alot of internet stuff to grade their results - and Java is a more popular internet language because of it's OS independence.

Using that logic that might as well merge:

 

 

 

C / C++ / PHP / Java / C# together, since the difference between them are almost as big as that of the Visual collection :roll: Gotta love bias polls.

Using that logic that might as well merge:

 

 

 

C / C++ / PHP / Java / C# together, since the difference between them are almost as big as that of the Visual collection :roll: Gotta love bias polls.

 

 

 

Might as well take it one step farther and lump it into 2 groups. One group programmers understand, and a group everyone else doesn't. :lol:

That too would work :ohnoes: