TIOBE 2012-2013 Language Rankings

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TIOBE 2012-2013 Language Rankings

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The TIOBE programming language index has some interesting trends over the past year. Of note for the many PHP programmers here at DevNet is that PHP held steady at #6 on the list. The big surprises are that C is now the top language and that Java dropped a little into 2nd and that C# fell even more. And the rise in Objective C is attributed to the fact that it is the language of choice to develop apps on IOS. Here is the list:

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/ ... index.html
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I, for one, would like to know how Bash went from 72 to 20.
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requinix wrote:I, for one, would like to know how Bash went from 72 to 20.
Part of that has to do with how TIOBE does it ranking -- which is with search results. I read someone suggest that the reason bash increased is that no one can remember bash syntax so they have to look it up. Not sure how that relates to the increase in C though. My experience is that C is the language that requires the least documentation searching because it was brilliantly designed to only have what was necessary to achieve portable assembler.
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