Tiobe Softwares has released rankings of programming languages and popularity of programing languages for the month of November 2008.
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.
The definition of the TIOBE index can be found here
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| Position Nov 2008 |
Position Nov 2007 |
Delta in Position | Programming Language | Ratings Nov 2008 |
Delta Nov 2007 |
Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |  |
Java |
20.299% | -0.24% | A |
| 2 | 2 | |
C |
15.276% | +1.31% | A |
| 3 | 4 |  |
C++ |
10.357% | +1.61% | A |
| 4 | 3 |  |
(Visual) Basic |
9.270% | -0.96% | A |
| 5 | 5 | |
PHP |
8.940% | +0.25% | A |
| 6 | 7 | |
Python |
5.140% | +0.91% | A |
| 7 | 8 | |
C# |
4.026% | +0.11% | A |
| 8 | 11 | |
Delphi |
4.006% | +1.55% | A |
| 9 | 6 | |
Perl |
3.876% | -0.86% | A |
| 10 | 10 | |
JavaScript |
2.925% | 0.00% | A |
| 11 | 9 | |
Ruby |
2.870% | -0.21% | A |
| 12 | 12 | |
D |
1.442% | -0.26% | A |
| 13 | 13 | |
PL/SQL |
0.939% | -0.24% | A |
| 14 | 14 | |
SAS |
0.729% | -0.40% | A– |
| 15 | 18 | |
ABAP |
0.570% | -0.08% | B |
| 16 | 19 | |
Pascal |
0.511% | -0.13% | B |
| 17 | 17 | |
COBOL |
0.510% | -0.20% | B |
| 18 | 25 | |
ActionScript |
0.506% | +0.04% | B |
| 19 | 23 | |
Logo |
0.489% | -0.04% | B |
| 20 | 16 | |
Lua |
0.473% | -0.27% | B |