June Headline: ActionScript. enters top 20

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 number of skilled engineers world-wide, 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.

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.

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1	1		Java	20.890%	+0.86%	A
2	2		C	15.513%	-0.45%	A
3	3		C++	10.806%	-0.31%	A
4	5		PHP	10.206%	+1.33%	A
5	4		(Visual) Basic	9.787%	+0.46%	A
6	6		Perl	5.548%	-0.63%	A
7	8		Python	4.899%	+1.74%	A
8	7		C#	4.058%	+0.57%	A
9	9		JavaScript	2.927%	+0.31%	A
10	10		Ruby	2.640%	+0.51%	A
11	13		Delphi	2.022%	+0.45%	A
12	14		D	1.445%	+0.19%	A
13	12		SAS	0.923%	-0.84%	A
14	11		PL/SQL	0.759%	-1.26%	A-
15	23		Pascal	0.596%	+0.11%	B
16	15		Lisp/Scheme	0.436%	-0.23%	B
17	17		Ada	0.421%	-0.21%	B
18	19		COBOL	0.379%	-0.21%	B
19	21		Lua	0.366%	-0.21%	B
20	24		ActionScript	0.341%	-0.05%	B

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The long term trends for the top 10 programming languages can be found in the line diagram below.

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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.

Position	Programming Language	Ratings
21	Logo	0.336%
22	Fortran	0.329%
23	MATLAB	0.263%
24	FoxPro/xBase	0.262%
25	Transact-SQL	0.249%
26	RPG (OS/400)	0.244%
27	ABAP	0.237%
28	Prolog	0.220%
29	Awk	0.209%
30	LabVIEW	0.179%
31	Haskell	0.143%
32	Smalltalk	0.126%
33	PowerShell	0.125%
34	Bourne shell	0.122%
35	Erlang	0.121%
36	Groovy	0.120%
37	APL	0.116%
38	Tcl/Tk	0.115%
39	ML	0.112%
40	Forth	0.107%
41	CL (OS/400)	0.102%
42	Objective-C	0.096%
43	S-lang	0.096%
44	Scala	0.095%
45	R	0.094%
46	Caml	0.092%
47	REXX	0.091%
48	Lingo	0.090%
49	Euphoria	0.084%
50	Natural	0.082%

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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).

• ABC, Algol, Alpha, Applescript, AspectJ, Beta, Boo, C shell, cg, Ch, Clean, cT, Curl, DC, Dylan, Eiffel, Factor, Felix, Focus, Icon, IDL, Inform, Io, Limbo, MAD, Magic, Maple, Mathematica, MOO, MUMPS, Oberon, Occam, OPL, Oz, Pike, PILOT, PL/I, Postscript, PowerBuilder, Progress, Q, REALbasic, Rebol, SIGNAL, SPSS, TOM, VBScript, Verilog, VHDL, XSLT

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June Newsflash - Brought to you by Paul Jansen

• Thanks to Paul Connelly there is now a better categorization of all C shell and Bourne shell dialects, Stephan Le Roux pointed out that CFScript. should be part of the CFML grouping and Glenn Kelley suggested to add VB6 to the Visual Basic entry. Thanks to you all!
• In the tables below some long term trends are listed about categories of languages. For the first time in 3 years statically typed languages are moving upwards again.766游戏网-Blog频道)N+fCv`
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  Category	Ratings June 2008	Delta June 2007
  Object-Oriented Languages	56.0%	+3.9%
  Procedural Languages	41.5%	-2.4%
  Functional Languages	1.8%	-0.3%
  Logical Languages	0.8%	-1.2%

  
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  Category	Ratings June 2008	Delta June 2007
  Statically Typed Languages	58.4%	+0.4%
  Dynamically Typed Languages	41.6%	-0.4%