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View Poll Results: Programming Language of the Year
PHP 115 13.36%
Perl 72 8.36%
Python 226 26.25%
Ruby 46 5.34%
C 114 13.24%
C++ 129 14.98%
Java 106 12.31%
Lisp 9 1.05%
Erlang 4 0.46%
Smalltalk 1 0.12%
Haskell 11 1.28%
C# 19 2.21%
Lua 4 0.46%
COBOL 3 0.35%
Scheme 2 0.23%
OCaml 0 0%
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Old 01-07-2009, 03:37 PM   #1
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Programming Language of the Year

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A new poll last year, and one that was extremely close.

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Old 01-07-2009, 05:56 PM   #2
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Ajax count as a programming language?
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Old 01-07-2009, 11:03 PM   #3
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Ajax count as a programming language?
No, it is a technique, not a language.

How about adding Scheme, or Objective Caml? Also, Lua is not an acronym, it's just a name so it should contain only a single capital letter at the beginning.
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Old 01-07-2009, 11:14 PM   #4
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Poll update - thanks for the feedback.

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Old 01-09-2009, 08:49 AM   #5
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Yay Lisp!
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Old 01-09-2009, 09:11 AM   #6
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What about Fortran? Still very popular in scientific computing, waiting for the new revision "Fortran 2008".
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Old 01-09-2009, 05:15 PM   #7
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What about LolPython?
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Old 01-10-2009, 03:03 AM   #8
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Surely, this is the year of Python on the desktop.
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Old 01-10-2009, 09:40 AM   #9
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Where's (g)awk?
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Old 01-11-2009, 05:40 AM   #10
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Am I mistaken or has 2008 been a very calm year on the programming language front? I wonder whether it makes sense to take vote when things are pretty much the way they were last year.
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Old 01-11-2009, 01:19 PM   #11
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python recomended
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Old 01-11-2009, 08:36 PM   #12
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Ruby, All the goodness on Dreamlinux is Ruby based. Nelsongs the Dreamlinux head dev got me into Ruby, and I am no coder I might add (really, I have problems with php Lol!) and Ruby has had me pulling my hair out, then smiling then making me realise how amazing it is to code with Ruby. Ok, I am at the very basic script standard at the moment, but it is a wonderful language.
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Old 01-12-2009, 04:38 PM   #13
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Old 01-13-2009, 12:21 PM   #14
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Uhh no pascal ?

is on the top tiobe stats
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/conte...pci/index.html

also i don't see javascript
it is now used everywhere even on server side
http://gluescript.sourceforge.net/
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Old 01-13-2009, 07:28 PM   #15
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Tens of languages I've never heard of... And... NO PASCAL?? WTF!! .. can't vote! =(
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