On 15 April 2010 15:21, Vince O'Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I came across these language "popularity" figures for April 2010, > today; http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html > and they make interesting reading. The value of the graphs lie not so > much in the snapshot of popularity at any given moment in time but in > the way that they track trends. > > What is immediately obvious is that Java has been on a steady decline > for the last nine years, with C pretty much holding its own and a > plethora of scripting languages vying for attention. C++ seems to be > in an even bigger long term decline, whilst C# is gaining, slowly but > steadily. > > I think that in increase in popularity of C# is particularly telling, > given its close resemblence to Java. It just goes to show the Java > does not need to be in decline and probably wouldn't be if the people > in control of it (i.e. the 'old guard' at Sun and the JCP committees) > managed it better. > though it's interesting that the recent surge in C that pushed it above Java is matched by a similarly sized downturn in C# so are people falling back to standard C away from managed languages in general, or were some C# results counted as C by mistake / due to changes in search algorithms? http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/tpci_definition.htm -- Cheers, Stuart -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
