[COFF] Most Popular Programming Languages 1965 - 2019

[Paul Palmer]

I'd like to see your list.
I'm well over 20 but never listed them.


On Sun, Dec 22, 2019, 3:36 PM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Dec 2019, Arthur Krewat wrote:
>
> > 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 ;)
>
> I've been keeping a list of all the languages that I've ever used since I
> was a stripling; it's up to 48, and that's counting all assembly languages
> as one etc.  That's about one language for every year that I've been a
> programmer :-)
>
> Yes, I try and teach myself a new language whenever possible; I'm
> currently looking at Ruby as a lightweight replacement for Perl (I run
> screaming from Python and its silly indentation), and Perl/Tk for a GUI
> for some scripts that I wrote (mostly puzzle solvers).
>
> -- Dave
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