From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: krewat at kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat) Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2019 11:51:12 -0500 Subject: [COFF] Most Popular Programming Languages 1965 - 2019 In-Reply-To: <20191221222234.GT95360@eureka.lemis.com> References: <20191221222234.GT95360@eureka.lemis.com> Message-ID: <8c757e99-bec1-b6d8-0d6a-96f55fbb2e35@kilonet.net> 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 > -- > Sent from my desktop computer. > Finger grog at lemis.com for PGP public key. > See complete headers for address and phone numbers. > This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program > reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA > > _______________________________________________ > COFF mailing list > COFF at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/coff -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: