Some statistics on programming language

October 15, 2013 Leave a comment

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://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_programming_languages

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