Programming Language Survey: Please Provide Your Input & See Results

June 15th, 2005 Here is an opportunity to vote for your favorite programming language and get others interested in it too, including myself. The languages are presented in no particular order.

July 17th, 2005 According to Forrester survey data and analysis, Java's 66% penetration is the highest among strategic programming languages for enterprise applications. Visual Basic 6 (VB6) and C/C++ have nearly as much penetration as Java, but VB6 is past mainstream support and C/C++ has a comparatively limited ecosystem.

September 29th, 2005 According to TIOBE Programming Community Index Java is the leading programming language again, ahead of C and C++, its nearest rivals. Perl and PHP occupy 4th and 5th positions respectively attesting to the power of scripting languages.

May 6th, 2008 The JavaFX Script Programming Language Tutorial by James Weaver at JavaOne 2008 was rather insipid. In my jet-lagged state, it was enough to put me to peaceful slumber.

June 6th, 2006 Java continues as the leading programming language according to TIOBE index updated on June 2006. Java is rated at 21.128%, an increase of 2.56% from June, 2005.

January 11th, 2006 Java has won the "TIOBE Programming Language of 2005" award. The Java language has increased its popularity in 2005 with 4.77%.

July 19th, 2006 Java increased its lead as the leading programming language according to TIOBE's index. PHP maintained its 4th position while Ruby moved up 13 positions to 17th.

September 27th, 2006 Allen Holub (Author of Compiler Design in C and famous OO Guru) said: "XML is perhaps the worst programming language ever conceived. I’m not talking about XML as a data-description language, which was its original design.

July 31st, 2009 'Last Lecture' prof's program to be updatedPITTSBURGH — Carnegie Mellon University will release an updated version of the animation-based software developed by late "last lecture" professor Randy Pausch to teach computer programming. Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon computer science professor and pioneer of virtual reality research, was involved with the Alice software project.

December 8th, 2005 InfoWorld published results of a survey which found Google search users were more net savvy and more likely (statistically significant) to have household income above 60, 000 USD, in comparison with competing search engines like Yahoo, MSN etc.. Unfortunately some of us tend to misinterpret results of such survey and infer erroneous causal relationships like - A way to get rich would be to use Google Search or MSN Search users are dumb (wouldn't you love to make that inference?).

August 11th, 2005 International Stroke Survey An international online stroke survey has been launched to gauge the awareness of signs and symptoms of stroke, as well as differences in treatment options available in Europe, Canada and the United States. The results will be used to help improve care for stroke survivors around the world and to raise awareness of this serious, yet treatable condition.

April 20th, 2008 PHP is not only a very competent web development language (and part of LAMP stack). It is also a very capable language for writing (command line) scripts.

May 1st, 2006 The form element input with type text strangely refuses to align with an adjacent image button (input element of type image). The problem is rather hard to solve as regular methods like using align or margin or padding or even adding whitespace to the image fails.

April 1st, 2009 robo.in, a venture of Thinklabs, founded by a group of IIT Bombay alumnus, in the field of educational robotics, today announced the launch of RoboCAMP, a summer camp which aims to offer a wholesome robotic learning system which will help kids learn science and technology in more practical and fun manner. The camp will start from April 13 at three venues namely at Cunningham Road, Indira Nagar and Jayanagar.

May 30th, 2007 We are currently processing huge amount of sensitive corporate data for a Fortune 500 company as the first phase of a project. You have to be very careful in data processing, much more than any standard programming effort.