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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, Yahoo!, and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.
Mainstream Languages
The index can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date or to make a strategic decision about what programming language should be adopted when starting to build a new software system. The definition of the TIOBE index can be found here.
Long term trends
The long term trends for the first 10 programming languages can be found in the line diagram below.
Other programming languages
The complete top 50 of programming languages is listed below. This overview is published unofficially, because it could be the case that we missed a language. If you have the impression there is a programming language lacking, please notify us at tpci@tiobe.com.
The Next 50 Programming Languages
The following list of languages denotes #51 to #100. Since the differences are relatively small, the programming languages are only listed (in alphabetical order).
* AD, Alpha, Applescript, AspectJ, BCPL, Beta, Boo, cg, Clean, Curl, DC, Dylan, Eiffel, Euphoria, F#, Fortress, IDL, Intercal, Io, J#, Lingo, MAD, Magic, Maple, Mathematica, MOO, MUMPS, Oberon, Objective-C, OCaml, Occam, Oz, PILOT, PL/I, Postscript, Powerbuilder, PowerShell, Progress, Q, R, REALbasic, Rebol, REXX, S-lang, SIGNAL, SPSS, Verilog, VHDL, Whitespace, XSLT
Source: TIOBE Software