Popularity of programming languages

From: André Thieme (this.address.is.good.until.2004.apr.17_at_justmail.de)
Date: 02/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 00:29:59 +0100

How does the popularity of a programming language affect this language?
Wouldn't Lisp become even more usefull (more libs) if it had more users?

This website tries to measure the popularity of some programming languages:
http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm

André

Relevant Pages

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  • Re: Programming language popularity
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  • Re: Programming language popularity
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  • Re: Making Lisp popular - can it be done?
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