Some interesting statistics on open source programming language based on TIOBE Programming Community Index.
| Programming Language | First Released |
Ratings Oct 2013 |
| C |
1972 |
17.25% |
| Java |
1995 |
16.11% |
| C++ |
1980 |
8.66% |
| PHP |
1995 |
6.09% |
| Python |
1991 |
3.11% |
| JavaScript |
1995 |
2.04% |
| Perl |
1987 |
1.61% |
| Ruby |
1993 |
1.25% |
| Groovy |
2003 |
0.66% |
| Scala |
2003 |
0.35% |
| Haskell |
1990 |
0.25% |
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_programming_languages
Venkat Sadasivam 
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