From: paul.allan.palmer at gmail.com (Paul Palmer)
Subject: [COFF] Most Popular Programming Languages 1965 - 2019
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2019 16:05:14 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM6ucknvBvejeWWisohPB3eh5to4iuxFJ5hE+NX0kJ1cOXh+ug@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1912230828520.85345@aneurin.horsfall.org>
I'd like to see your list.
I'm well over 20 but never listed them.
On Sun, Dec 22, 2019, 3:36 PM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Dec 2019, Arthur Krewat wrote:
>
> > 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 ;)
>
> I've been keeping a list of all the languages that I've ever used since I
> was a stripling; it's up to 48, and that's counting all assembly languages
> as one etc. That's about one language for every year that I've been a
> programmer :-)
>
> Yes, I try and teach myself a new language whenever possible; I'm
> currently looking at Ruby as a lightweight replacement for Perl (I run
> screaming from Python and its silly indentation), and Perl/Tk for a GUI
> for some scripts that I wrote (mostly puzzle solvers).
>
> -- Dave
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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
2019-12-22 21:36 ` dave
2019-12-22 22:05 ` paul.allan.palmer [this message]
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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