See Part Five
Despite the numerous ways in existence to quantify programming language popularity, I thought I’d throw yet another one into the mix. I made a number of Google searches of the forms below and averaged the results:
"implemented in <language>" "written in <language>"
I’m very curious to see how these stats change over time, so I’ve added a calendar item to recompute them in six months. Leave a comment if you’d like to add a programming language to the list, and I’ll update this article and it will be included in the recomputation six months from now.
| Language | # Results |
|---|---|
| C | 1,905,500 |
| Java | 850,000 |
| C++ | 699,000 |
| PHP | 680,000 |
| Python | 396,000 |
| Perl | 365,500 |
| C# | 349,700 |
| Lisp Family1 | 176,507 |
| JavaScript | 102,700 |
| Ruby | 99,650 |
| Scheme | 86,450 |
| Lisp | 61,900 |
| Tcl | 44,800 |
| ML Family2 | 29,062 |
| Haskell | 22,550 |
| Erlang | 22,285 |
| OCaml | 22,000 |
| Common Lisp | 20,600 |
| Prolog | 17,750 |
| Lua | 13,065 |
| Smalltalk | 9,105 |
| Arc | 6,775 |
| Forth | 6,465 |
| (S)ML3 | 5,173 |
| Scala | 3,570 |
| Caml | 1,889 |
| Io | 1,760 |
| Clojure | 782 |
1 combines Lisp, Scheme, Common Lisp, Arc & Clojure
2 combines OCaml, (S)ML, Caml
3 summed separate searches for sml and ml
Update 4/23/09 added C#, Tcl per comment requests.
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April 23, 2009 at 9:31 am
crimson13
“implemented in C#” 90.500
“written in C#” 615.000
April 23, 2009 at 9:52 am
anonymous
Please include tcl,
may be between Lisp and ML
April 23, 2009 at 10:00 am
Brian Adkins
@crimson13, @anonymous – thanks for the requests. I added both. I find it interesting that I didn’t include C# initially since I programmed in it for 2 or 3 years. I suppose I’ve suppressed all things M$
April 23, 2009 at 1:53 pm
smallpond
pascal = 9230, 65,900
delphi = 114,000, 3030
April 23, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Cesar Rabak
implemented in COBOL: 392.000
written in COBOL: 1.170.000
April 23, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Cesar Rabak
implemented in Fortran: 1.290.000
written in Fortran: 2.410.000
April 23, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Brian Adkins
@Cesar you need to search in quotes. For example, when I search for “written in cobol”, I get 39,900 instead of 1M+
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