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  1. Aug 26th, 2009, 12:44 PM #1
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    Most popular programming language

    According to eWeek.com, PHP is the top programming language that the job market is after, and VB.Net is the last one in the list:
    http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Manageme...arn-Right-Now/

    And langpop.com's research shows the most popular programming language belong to the C. PHP is the 4th after C, Java and C++. VB.Net is somewhere in the middle of the list...
    http://langpop.com/

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    Re: Most popular programming language

    3 - AJAX
    4 - JavaScript

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    Re: Most popular programming language

    The first one was written 4 yers ago.
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    Re: Most popular programming language

    I don't think the eWeek listing was a ranking... just a list...
    And langpop... well... unless they starting hitting Dice, Monster, TechJobs, etc... it's hardly conclusive.

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    @ Gary - I didn't even notice that... good call.

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    Re: Most popular programming language

    Stanav the toes on your right foot must be getting sore.
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    Re: Most popular programming language

    Quote Originally Posted by EntityX View Post
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    Re: Most popular programming language

    Here is another one, and it's for August 2009... It lists VB.Net with a higher rank than C#...
    http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/conte...pci/index.html

    All in all, if I'm to learn a new language, PHP probably benifits me the most in the job market since its rank is consistently in the top 5.
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    Re: Most popular programming language

    C seems to be ranked pretty high overall in those lists.

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    Re: Most popular programming language

    Well, C has been around... for what... 40+, 50+ years? So that's not all that surprising. I'm not wholy convinced any of those results are accurate though. They don't seem to jive with what I've seen as "needed" in the market...

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    Re: Most popular programming language

    PHP is used on millions of sites, No wonder why it is way up there.
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    Re: Most popular programming language

    Quote Originally Posted by techgnome View Post
    Well, C has been around... for what... 40+, 50+ years? So that's not all that surprising. I'm not wholy convinced any of those results are accurate though. They don't seem to jive with what I've seen as "needed" in the market...

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    Re: Most popular programming language

    The most popular language is the one you get paid to program in. All others are moot.
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    Re: Most popular programming language

    Quote Originally Posted by demotivater View Post
    The most popular language is the one you get paid to program in. All others are moot.
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    Re: Most popular programming language

    Quote Originally Posted by demotivater View Post
    The most popular language is the one you get paid to program in. All others are moot.
    So what is the most popular programming language for a person if he/she is not a programmer currently but looking forward to becoming one?
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    Re: Most popular programming language

    Quote Originally Posted by stanav View Post
    so what is the most popular programming language for a person if he/she is not a programmer currently but looking forward to becoming one?
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    Re: Most popular programming language

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    Html?... You can hardly find anyone building a website in pure html these days...
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    Re: Most popular programming language

    Wait a minute, guys... Are we still talking about popular programming languages or have we changed the subject to programming technologies?
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    Re: Most popular programming language

    I made my comment remembering all those people who would claim they know how to program in html as if html was really a programming language.

    That was back in the early 90's though
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    Re: Most popular programming language

    I wonder whether the dominance of C in those lists has to do with people saying C when they mean C++ or C#.
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    well, in one, they lumped all flavors of C (incl C++/C# and others) into the same "C" category...

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    Re: Most popular programming language

    And what is "(Visual) Basic"? Does the Visual have precedence over the basic?
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