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Programming Language Popularity – Part Two
See Part Five
I compiled some programming language popularity statistics in April and mentioned I’d update the results in 6 months, so here they are:
I made a number of Google searches of the forms below and averaged the results:
"implemented in <language>" "written in <language>"
| Language | # Results Apr 09 |
# Results Oct 09 |
Position Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| C | 1,905,500 | 16,975,000 | 0 |
| C++ | 699,000 | 6,270,000 | +1 |
| Java | 850,000 | 5,118,000 | -1 |
| PHP | 680,000 | 5,083,500 | 0 |
| Lisp Family1 | 176,507 | 3,489,650 | +3 |
| Python | 396,000 | 3,407,000 | -1 |
| Perl | 365,500 | 3,132,500 | -1 |
| C# | 349,700 | 2,125,000 | -1 |
| Scheme | 86,450 | 2,100,000 | +2 |
| FORTRAN | 1,621,000 | N/A | |
| JavaScript | 102,700 | 1,163,000 | -1 |
| ML Family2 | 29,062 | 1,003,800 | +3 |
| (S)ML3 | 5,173 | 590,700 | +12 |
| Common Lisp | 20,600 | 554,500 | +5 |
| Lisp | 61,900 | 486,500 | -2 |
| Prolog | 17,750 | 390,500 | +4 |
| Tcl | 44,800 | 382,000 | -3 |
| OCaml | 22,000 | 343,500 | 0 |
| Arc | 6,775 | 286,500 | +4 |
| Haskell | 22,550 | 280,500 | -4 |
| COBOL | 247,300 | N/A | |
| Ruby | 99,650 | 227,000 | -10 |
| Io | 1,760 | 198,500 | +6 |
| Smalltalk | 9,105 | 187,500 | -1 |
| Erlang | 22,285 | 161,700 | -7 |
| Forth | 6,465 | 146,450 | -1 |
| Lua | 13,065 | 131,800 | -5 |
| Caml | 1,889 | 69,600 | 0 |
| Scala | 3,570 | 66,250 | -2 |
| Clojure | 782 | 62,200 | 0 |
1 combines Lisp, Scheme, Common Lisp, Arc & Clojure
2 combines OCaml, (S)ML, Caml
3 summed separate searches for sml and ml
Programming Language Popularity
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.
