C is back on top... just

[candide]

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/TIOBE-C-is-back-on-top-just-1517532.html

 

[notbob]

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/TIOBE-C-is-back-on-top-just-1517532.html

Not bad for being 40 yrs old.

nb

 

[JohnF]

www.h-online.com/open/news/item/TIOBE-C-is-back-on-top-just-1517532.html

On top is where it belongs, I suppose (in my not-unbiased opinion).
But that table at
www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
on which the ranking is based, strikes me as maybe a bit off.
Although maybe legacy, I'd expect to see Fortran and Cobol
somewhere, especially considering their huge installed bases.
But googling Cobol at this moment gives me 18,000,000 hits,
and googling Fortran gives, perhaps coincidentally, 18,100,000.
Python gives 208,000,000. Seems a bit too lopsided to me,
so maybe the table's google methodology for ranking needs
tweaking of some sort.

 

[BartC]

On top is where it belongs, I suppose (in my not-unbiased opinion).
But that table at
www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
on which the ranking is based, strikes me as maybe a bit off.
Although maybe legacy, I'd expect to see Fortran and Cobol
somewhere, especially considering their huge installed bases.
But googling Cobol at this moment gives me 18,000,000 hits,
and googling Fortran gives, perhaps coincidentally, 18,100,000.
Python gives 208,000,000. Seems a bit too lopsided to me,
so maybe the table's google methodology for ranking needs
tweaking of some sort.

Yes. Googling "C" gives me 23,000,000,000 hits.

 

[Fritz Wuehler]

On top is where it belongs, I suppose (in my not-unbiased opinion).
But that table at
www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
on which the ranking is based, strikes me as maybe a bit off.
Although maybe legacy, I'd expect to see Fortran and Cobol
somewhere, especially considering their huge installed bases.

Good assumption. I believe it is valid. What is definitely not valid is
tiobe. According to them Intel is the only platform. If you include
everything that runs code their numbers are meaningless. It's just a
popularity contest slanted towards PC users, not very meaningful in the real world.

But googling Cobol at this moment gives me 18,000,000 hits,
and googling Fortran gives, perhaps coincidentally, 18,100,000.
Python gives 208,000,000. Seems a bit too lopsided to me,
so maybe the table's google methodology for ranking needs
tweaking of some sort.

No doubt.

Most COBOL is on the mainframe and mainframe COBOL programmers mostly don't
have mailing lists, forums, or usenet news groups so you usually will not
run into those guys online. There are a few vocal ones but given most of the
guys who wrote the billions and billions of lines of COBOL have already
retired and most never used the net you won't see much about real COBOL
online.

FORTRAN has attracted some new users and there are good PC compilers
available. But it's a speciality language or at least hangs onto that
reputation. It's older than COBOL but has nowhere as much code written in it
although it's still alot of code. There aren't that many guys writing purely
numerical applications that hang out on usenet or PCs although you will see
some important guys on c.l.f.