| Position Sep 2007 |
Position Sep 2006 |
Delta in Position | Programming Language | Ratings Sep 2007 |
Delta Sep 2006 |
Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |  |
Java | 21.701% | +0.17% | A |
| 2 | 2 | |
C | 14.908% | -3.15% | A |
| 3 | 4 |  |
(Visual) Basic | 10.748% | +0.12% | A |
| 4 | 5 | |
PHP | 10.204% | +1.08% | A |
| 5 | 3 |  |
C++ | 9.938% | -0.82% | A |
| 6 | 6 | |
Perl | 5.416% | -0.01% | A |
| 7 | 8 | |
C# | 3.583% | +0.59% | A |
| 8 | 7 | |
Python | 3.025% | -0.12% | A |
| 9 | 9 | |
JavaScript | 2.722% | +0.28% | A |
| 10 | 13 | |
Ruby | 2.065% | +1.13% | A |
| 11 | 12 | |
PL/SQL | 1.860% | +0.82% | A |
| 12 | 11 | |
SAS | 1.395% | -0.54% | A |
| 13 | 16 | |
D | 1.370% | +0.82% | A |
| 14 | 10 | |
Delphi | 1.224% | -0.88% | A |
| 15 | 17 | |
ABAP | 0.706% | +0.15% | A-- |
| 16 | 14 | |
Lisp/Scheme | 0.633% | -0.02% | B |
| 17 | 15 | |
COBOL | 0.630% | +0.07% | B |
| 18 | 50 | |
Lua | 0.572% | +0.51% | B |
| 19 | 19 | |
Ada | 0.566% | +0.03% | B |
| 20 | 21 | |
Fortran | 0.478% | +0.08% | B |
Long term trends
The long term trends for the first 10 programming languages can be found in the line diagram below.
Other programming languages
The complete top 50 of programming languages is listed below. This overview is published unofficially, because it could be the case that we missed a language. If you have the impression there is a programming language lacking, please notify us at tpci@tiobe.com.
| Position | Programming Language | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| 21 | Transact-SQL | 0.452% |
| 22 | Pascal | 0.429% |
| 23 | ActionScript | 0.407% |
| 24 | FoxPro/xBase | 0.387% |
| 25 | Awk | 0.383% |
| 26 | MATLAB | 0.364% |
| 27 | IDL | 0.326% |
| 28 | Prolog | 0.313% |
| 29 | ColdFusion | 0.297% |
| 30 | Logo | 0.249% |
| 31 | Bash | 0.221% |
| 32 | RPG | 0.198% |
| 33 | Tcl/Tk | 0.187% |
| 34 | LabView | 0.178% |
| 35 | Haskell | 0.147% |
| 36 | Smalltalk | 0.145% |
| 37 | CL (OS/400) | 0.133% |
| 38 | Forth | 0.119% |
| 39 | Natural | 0.116% |
| 40 | Erlang | 0.109% |
| 41 | VBScript | 0.102% |
| 42 | APL | 0.101% |
| 43 | REXX | 0.088% |
| 44 | Objective-C | 0.084% |
| 45 | OCaml | 0.082% |
| 46 | Icon | 0.079% |
| 47 | Postscript | 0.076% |
| 48 | Lingo | 0.075% |
| 49 | ML | 0.074% |
| 50 | R | 0.072% |
The Next 50 Programming Languages
The following list of languages denotes #51 to #100. Since the differences are relatively small, the programming languages are only listed (in alphabetical order).
- ABC, AD, Alpha, Applescript, AspectJ, Beta, Boo, cg, Ch, CIL, Clean, Csh, cT, DC, Dylan, Eiffel, Euphoria, F#, Felix, Focus, Groovy, Inform, Io, J#, MAD, Magic, Maple, Mathematica, Modula-2, MOO, MUMPS, Occam, OPL, Oz, PILOT, PL/I, Powerbuilder, Progress, Q, REALbasic, S-lang, Scala, Seed7, SIGNAL, Simula, SPSS, Verilog, VHDL, XSLT, Yorick
September Newsflash - Brought to you by Paul Jansen
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The programming languages C and C++ have hard times. The graph below shows the ratings for C for the last 5 years. C is gradually declining with a new all-time low score this month.
I have got the impression that embedded software engineers are moving from C to C++ because almost all main stream IC vendors offer C++ compilers nowadays. On the other hand, lots of Microsoft shops start their new projects in C# rather than C++, thus migrating away from C++. Since the number of Visual Studio programmers is much larger than the number of embedded software engineers, both C and C++ suffer in popularity.
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In the tables below some long term trends are listed about categories of languages. The tables show that dynamically typed object-oriented languages are still becoming more popular.
Category Ratings September 2007 Delta September 2006 Object-Oriented Languages 52.5% +1.2% Procedural Languages 44.4% -2.4% Logical Languages 1.8% +0.7% Functional Languages 1.4% +0.5%
Category Ratings September 2007 Delta September 2006 Statically Typed Languages 56.9% -3.6% Dynamically Typed Languages 43.1% +3.6%
