From: krewat at kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat)
Subject: [COFF] Most Popular Programming Languages 1965 - 2019
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2019 11:51:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8c757e99-bec1-b6d8-0d6a-96f55fbb2e35@kilonet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191221222234.GT95360@eureka.lemis.com>
Define "popular" - what's actually in use, versus what people want to
use. And job listings versus research. Both of those would lead to
different results ;)
On 12/21/2019 5:22 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Monday, 16 December 2019 at 11:33:32 +1000, Robert Brockway wrote:
>> The author seems to have taken some care to get decent data sources.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og847HVwRSI
> Interesting overview, but I have my doubts about its accuracy. Lisp
> seems to have been too popular in the mid-1980s, and at the same time
> he claims that Ada was the most popular language. Both seem highly
> unlikely to me. And then JavaScript got off to a flying start: over
> 4% in Q2 1995, quite an impressive for a language that was introduced
> in Q3 1995. So without much more proof I'd take it with a pinch of
> salt.
>
> Greg
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2019-12-16 1:33 robert
2019-12-17 22:54 ` paul.allan.palmer
2019-12-17 23:02 ` clemc
2019-12-21 22:22 ` grog
2019-12-22 0:42 ` cym224
2019-12-22 16:51 ` krewat [this message]
2019-12-22 21:36 ` dave
2019-12-22 22:05 ` paul.allan.palmer
2019-12-23 17:04 ` krewat
2019-12-23 19:54 ` thomas.paulsen
2019-12-23 21:59 ` krewat
2019-12-23 23:15 ` thomas.paulsen
2019-12-27 16:28 ` athornton
2019-12-27 18:24 ` thomas.paulsen
2019-12-27 21:42 ` tih
2019-12-27 22:13 ` paul.allan.palmer
2019-12-23 23:03 ` [COFF] Gnu Smalltalk or...? [was: Most Popular Programming Languages 1965 - 2019] rtomek
2019-12-24 17:46 ` bakul
2019-12-25 17:50 ` rtomek
2019-12-22 22:41 ` [COFF] Most Popular Programming Languages 1965 - 2019 grog
2019-12-21 23:32 thomas.paulsen
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