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The Top 10 Programming LanguagesThey're mostly ones you'd expect'and then there's Luahttp://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/the-top-10-programming-languages?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrum+%28IEEE+Spectrum%29-tj ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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Nice. Thanks, Tom.
--Doug --
Doug Roberts [hidden email] [hidden email] On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> wrote:
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One language missing from that site is R (understandably since it's really tough to search accurately for a single letter, although they seem to do it for C and D...) It's also tough because most R package development is done on the R-Forge site or just uploaded to CRAN, so there's no good way to do comparative popularity. LangPop admits that it's hard for them to get useful data on R: http://groups.google.com/group/langpop/browse_thread/thread/dbcff0fb63552ebf# However, Bob Muenchen (r4stats.com) has done his own analysis of the popularity of R: http://sites.google.com/site/r4statistics/popularity Brent From: Douglas Roberts <[hidden email]> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 7:39 PM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The Top 10 Programming Languages - IEEE Spectrum Nice. Thanks, Tom. --Doug --
Doug Roberts [hidden email] [hidden email] On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> wrote:
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I think they would consider R a "Domain Specific Language" which they appear to not categorize. NetLogo, Processing, SCSS, Shockwave, AppleScript, Groovy etc, for example are not included.
Fascinating that Cobal ranks around the same as Fortran. Weird 'cause Fortran is included in all the mathematics bundles.
I don't think they should separate C and C++ .. they really are merged at this point.
Interesting trends that seem to agree with the hacker elite:
- Javascript much higher than a few years ago. Damn. I was hoping we'd have it for ourselves for a while. - Ruby far less popular than earlier, likely due to much better web frameworks now.
- The /. stats will be useful unless they are clever about "LangX .. sucks" not being +1 - Clearly Apple should do something about Objective C .. nifty as it is in some ways, it simply does not appeal to "high level language" folks without GC. Only folks forced to use it do so.
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Among the most-cited these languages are named or implied:
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I think we need a David Letterman/Jimmy Fallon top 10/thank you list of programming languages:
Ruby - thank you the slowest implementation of really cool concepts ever made Python - thank you for never sorting any list of anything before the UI window turns grey
C++ - thank you for all the features I can never remember how to use C - thank you for allowing me to cast integers to pointers even when I should have gone to sleep instead Java - thank you for collecting more garbage than any programmer ever should have been allowed to make
Fortran - thank you for 40 years of non-recursive functions Perl - thank you for teaching my daughter the inscrutability of if statements interpolated into expressions Php and Sql - thank you for all those web site implementations that no one will ever get right
VisualBasic and C# - thank you for all those killer apps that never got written for windows Javascript - thank you for hanging in there when no one believed you really were a programming language -- rec -- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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On 9/28/11 11:47 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
About 36 years before it was fixed (in 1954-1990). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran_95_language_features#Recursion ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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Superb!
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