Python's popularity statistics

[Aaron K. Johnson]

For all who are interested, I wrote a couple of python scripts that helped
extract newsgroup activity from the comp.lang.* hierarchy, and this can be a
rough guide to the popularity and usage of the big programming languages.

On a pragmatic note, I wrote this scripts in under a hour. I challenge
advocates of another language other than Python to beat the ease with which
this can be done. (esp. languages with weak real world libs like Lisp!)

Note the admirable position on the Python at the top of the heap! IMO it should
knock Perl down a notch, but Perl has a strong unix traditional community.

-Aaron.
	
	Popularity List of Computer Languages
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java 26953
c++ 19913
c 13874
perl 10486
python 9647
clipper 8960
javascript 8606
basic 7909
clarion 6939
ruby 6466
lisp 6132
tcl 5256
pascal 4229
labview 3427
smalltalk 2398
fortran 2355
ada 2239
forth 2195
scheme 1877
cobol 1845
functional 1647
objective-c 1505
asm 1399
vhdl 1143
prolog 1004
postscript 917
idl-pvwave 856
awk 694
verilog 609
vrml 493
rexx 412
eiffel 366
apl 350
ml 302
misc 256
logo 217
pl1 203
mumps 189
asm370 165
dylan 119
modula2 61
oberon 54
icon 48
pop 26
modula3 26
idl 11
sather 6
clos 5
beta 5
limbo 3
hermes 2
clu 2
prograph 1