Re: Programming Technology

chheangroth wrote:
Hello everybody, can anybody tell me which programming language is the
most popular in the world. And please list me the degree of some
programming languages in descending order. For example,
1. C++
2. Java
3. C#...

But those are only examples not the reality. I need the reality.


fishfry wrote:
It may well be that the most lines of working code in the world are
still in COBOL. There's a hell of a lot of legacy code at banks and
insurance companies.

Yes, still true. Most programs are boring business applications.
COBOL has built-in fixed-point decimal arithmetic and formatting
operations, something that very few other languages have.

C++ is probably the most popular general-purpose language for
GUI, gaming, network, and systems programming.

Java is probably the most popular applications language, followed
closely by VB (Visual Basic), Python, and PHP. C# is essentially
Java, but is restricted to operating only on the .NET platform.

FORTRAN is still very popular for numerical programming and
simulation, followed closely by C/C++.


BTW, why are you asking this question on sci.math?

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