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Title: Programming languages by popularity
Post by: Yaloopy on November 08, 2007
http://www.langpop.com/
Title: Re: Programming languages by popularity
Post by: benny! on November 09, 2007
Interesting link. Thanks for sharing!
Title: Re: Programming languages by popularity
Post by: taj on November 09, 2007
I agree, thanks for that yaloopy, very interesting read.
Title: Re: Programming languages by popularity
Post by: Shockwave on November 09, 2007
Amazing that C seems much more popular than C++ in general terms.
I would never have thought it!
Title: Re: Programming languages by popularity
Post by: rain_storm on November 09, 2007
I think that is because of the people like me that can manage the old console apps in C but are lost in the flood with the gui's and C++. Or maybe its because Googling for C++ is equivelent to searching C &&
Title: Re: Programming languages by popularity
Post by: benny! on November 10, 2007
I also thought about the problem rain_storm mentioned. Guess there may be some inaccuracies
because of wrong/variations of search keyword. Some ppl may type in C++ - some other
type Cpp and others maybe just type C even though they mean C++ ?

Anyway, interesting link.
Title: Re: Programming languages by popularity
Post by: taj on November 10, 2007
Quote from: Shockwave on November 09, 2007
Amazing that C seems much more popular than C++ in general terms.
I would never have thought it!

One factor *may* be that in the embedded world C++ isnt as popular as C. There are loads of devices in the home which might be considered embedded. TV, DVR, DVD, Stereo, computer peripherals, fridge, dish washer, all in one remote control, amplifiers...etc are all embedded. Some programmed in asm, many programmed in C. Even  phones are 90% C with a thin layer of Java (the Java engine itself is in C). So, C is much bigger than people think. Its still probably the most widely used programming language in the world I guess.

Chris