C Language is AGAIN the Most Widely Used Programming Language

April 7, 2010 · Filed Under Software Estimating  - 3 Comment(s)

I hear so often tha tthe “C” programing language is dying or dead. I suppose I hear it mostly from Java lovers.. but I can recall having similar conversations with Galorath staff and others.

A new study came out this month showing the C programming language is number one most widely used, followed by JAVA, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, and C#.  The rise of C was really a drop in JAVA. Very interesting since the PHP and Visual Basic take less time to master and are much less powerful.  According to studies encapsulated in SEER, it takes about 6 months to become a black belt in Basic or PHP and a year in C, JAVA, C+ and C#.

Interestingly ABAP (SAP language) is number 17 on the list, COBOL is number 29 and good old FORTRAN (where I cut my teeth) is number 34.


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3 Responses to “C Language is AGAIN the Most Widely Used Programming Language”

  1. dan on April 9th, 2010 8:07 am

    This morning I received an email with “exciting” news. a new GUI for RPG. My first thought was “why would anyone invest in a new GUI for RPG” SO I went to this language list ans found RPG is the number 30 most used language, just under COBOL. And we know there are mountains of COOL programs running in the world. ” Observe that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.”

  2. galorath on April 9th, 2010 8:33 am

    Also notable, their definition of a language is a full language as defined by Turing so SQL, XML, HTML and the like are not included

  3. fareed on May 4th, 2010 10:49 pm

    what is diffrence b/w c and html

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