[BangPypers] Python grows in 2007
Dorai Thodla
dorai at thodla.com
Thu Jan 3 15:14:40 CET 2008
Anand,
I have been tracking TIOBE for a while and have a couple of blogs on it.
They do explain their methodology here:
http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm
Dorai
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P.S: http://dorai.wordpress.com/?s=%22programming+language+trends%22
On Jan 3, 2008 6:56 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai <abpillai at gmail.com>
wrote:
> A few more observations...
>
> o The language "D" is slowly on its way up.
> o Lua has the fastest growth from posn 46 to posn 20!
> o Contrary to popular jokes, COBOL is still alive and in fact growing :D
>
> This validates my theory that the very high level language trio of
> Python, Ruby,PHP
> and its associates Lua etc are the future languages to look out for.
>
> And "D" looks set to be the C++++ for the future. (the ++ is no typo!)
>
> I invite you to draw your own observations. Btw, the TIOBE index is
> the popular programming language index on the web. I am not
> sure what methods they use to calculate these numbers or how scientific
> they are...
>
> --Anand
>
> On Jan 3, 2008 6:47 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai <abpillai at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > The TIOBE programming languages community index {
> http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm}
> > shows that Python has gone a step higher in Dec 07 when compared to Dec
> 06.
> >
> > Python was at position 7 in 06 and now it is at position 6. Ruby has
> jumped
> > two notches from position 11 to position 9.
> >
> > Other interesting trends is that Java has managed to keep the top-spot
> > while C++ is on a downward trend. It is also interesting to see the drop
> > in Perl - I guess a lot of Perl programmers are moving to Ruby or Python
> :)
> >
> > The chart below shows the long term trends. A quick look provides
> > some interesting observations.
> >
> > o C++ has been on a downward slope since 2005
> > o The Java graph has an overall negative trend since 2001, but
> > has numerous large peaks and troughs with the most recent
> > being an upward growth. In general the growth has been flat
> > since mid 2005
> > o Perl is clearly on an downward trend
> > o PHP is overall on an upward trend
> > o Python had a dramatic peak in early-mid 2004 which spiked
> > its popularity (I wonder what caused it!) which it has managed
> > to improve further.
> > o Ruby has had a major surge in late 2006-2007 and is now
> > almost equaling Python though the growth rate of Python is
> > slightly more than that of Ruby
> > o Visual Basic is on an overall flat trend since 2002 managing to
> > keep its space and actually growing in 2007
> >
> > Good news for Python programmers ... The full report will be
> > released some time soon.
> >
> > --
> > -Anand
> >
>
>
>
> --
> -Anand
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