[COFF] Most Popular Programming Languages 1965 - 2019

[Arthur Krewat]

Define "popular" - what's actually in use, versus what people want to 
use. And job listings versus research. Both of those would lead to 
different results ;)




On 12/21/2019 5:22 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Monday, 16 December 2019 at 11:33:32 +1000, Robert Brockway wrote:
>> The author seems to have taken some care to get decent data sources.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og847HVwRSI
> Interesting overview, but I have my doubts about its accuracy.  Lisp
> seems to have been too popular in the mid-1980s, and at the same time
> he claims that Ada was the most popular language.  Both seem highly
> unlikely to me.  And then JavaScript got off to a flying start: over
> 4% in Q2 1995, quite an impressive for a language that was introduced
> in Q3 1995.  So without much more proof I'd take it with a pinch of
> salt.
>
> Greg
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