Re: Choice of programming language

One way to judge current language popularity is to look
at open source projects in, say, freshmeat.net. Here
is todays snapshot of about 32K projects on that site,
categorized by language. Fortran share is 69/31867~0.2%
If restricted to numerical-heavy projects (I didnt know how to
extract that info) the share would be likely higher.

language projects percent
Ada 64 0.20
APL 3 0.01
ASP 42 0.13
Assembly 246 0.77
Awk 44 0.14
Basic 31 0.10
C 8020 25.17
C# 229 0.72
C++ 4171 13.09
Clipper 0 0.00
Cold Fusion 28 0.09
Common Lisp 60 0.19
Delphi 83 0.26
Dylan 2 0.01
Eiffel 33 0.10
Emacs-Lisp 59 0.19
Erlang 21 0.07
Euler 1 0.00
Euphoria 4 0.01
Forth 25 0.08
Fortran 69 0.22
Groovy 6 0.02
Haskell 59 0.19
Java 4716 14.80
JavaScript 704 2.21
Lisp 82 0.26
Logo 6 0.02
Lua 22 0.07
ML 32 0.10
Modula 9 0.03
Object Pascal 20 0.06
Objective C 336 1.05
OCaml 64 0.20
Other 267 0.84
Other Scripting Engines 149 0.47
Pascal 58 0.18
Perl 3611 11.33
PHP 3665 11.50
Pike 14 0.04
PL/SQL 85 0.27
Pliant 1 0.00
PROGRESS 3 0.01
Prolog 20 0.06
Python 2286 7.17
REALbasic 6 0.02
Rebol 0 0.00
Rexx 12 0.04
Ruby 299 0.94
Scheme 128 0.40
Simula 1 0.00
Smalltalk 29 0.09
SQL 487 1.53
Tcl 465 1.46
Unix Shell 874 2.74
Visual Basic 39 0.12
XBasic 1 0.00
YACC 31 0.10
Zope 45 0.14
Total projects: 31867

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