Re: Which language should I learn?



Mohd Hanafiah Abdullah wrote:

> Also, check out:
> http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm
>
> Here's a snippet from the website:
>
> "The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the
popularity of
> programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The
ratings are
> based on the world-wide availability of skilled engineers, courses
and third
> party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
are used to
> calculate the ratings. Observe that the TPC index is not about the
best
> programming language or the language in which most lines of code
have been
> written."
>
> For the month of Rpril, C is at the top followed by Java, then PHP,
then C++.

I think the TIOBE rankings are implausibly volatile. I doubt that
between summer 2004 and March 2005, the market share of C++ has really
dropped 33%, from about 15% to 10%, as a graph at
http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/blog/archives/380-TIOBE-Programming-Community-Index.html
indicates.

.



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