Tiobe Softwares has released rankings of programming languages and popularity of programing languages for the month of November 2008.
The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings.
The definition of the TIOBE index can be found here.
Position Nov 2008 | Position Nov 2007 | Delta in Position | Programming Language | Ratings Nov 2008 | Delta Nov 2007 | Status |
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1 | 1 | Java | 20.299% | -0.24% | A | |
2 | 2 | C | 15.276% | +1.31% | A | |
3 | 4 | C++ | 10.357% | +1.61% | A | |
4 | 3 | (Visual) Basic | 9.270% | -0.96% | A | |
5 | 5 | PHP | 8.940% | +0.25% | A | |
6 | 7 | Python | 5.140% | +0.91% | A | |
7 | 8 | C# | 4.026% | +0.11% | A | |
8 | 11 | Delphi | 4.006% | +1.55% | A | |
9 | 6 | Perl | 3.876% | -0.86% | A | |
10 | 10 | JavaScript | 2.925% | 0.00% | A | |
11 | 9 | Ruby | 2.870% | -0.21% | A | |
12 | 12 | D | 1.442% | -0.26% | A | |
13 | 13 | PL/SQL | 0.939% | -0.24% | A | |
14 | 14 | SAS | 0.729% | -0.40% | A– | |
15 | 18 | ABAP | 0.570% | -0.08% | B | |
16 | 19 | Pascal | 0.511% | -0.13% | B | |
17 | 17 | COBOL | 0.510% | -0.20% | B | |
18 | 25 | ActionScript | 0.506% | +0.04% | B | |
19 | 23 | Logo | 0.489% | -0.04% | B | |
20 | 16 | Lua | 0.473% | -0.27% | B |