Despite the numerous ways in existence to quantify programming language popularity, I thought I’d throw yet another one into the mix. I made a number of Google searches of the forms below and averaged the results:
"implemented in <language>" "written in <language>"
I’m very curious to see how these stats change over time, so I’ve added a calendar item to recompute them in six months. Leave a comment if you’d like to add a programming language to the list, and I’ll update this article and it will be included in the recomputation six months from now.
| Language | # Results |
|---|---|
| C | 1,905,500 |
| Java | 850,000 |
| C++ | 699,000 |
| PHP | 680,000 |
| Python | 396,000 |
| Perl | 365,500 |
| C# | 349,700 |
| Lisp Family1 | 176,507 |
| JavaScript | 102,700 |
| Ruby | 99,650 |
| Scheme | 86,450 |
| Lisp | 61,900 |
| Tcl | 44,800 |
| ML Family2 | 29,062 |
| Haskell | 22,550 |
| Erlang | 22,285 |
| OCaml | 22,000 |
| Common Lisp | 20,600 |
| Prolog | 17,750 |
| Lua | 13,065 |
| Smalltalk | 9,105 |
| Arc | 6,775 |
| Forth | 6,465 |
| (S)ML3 | 5,173 |
| Scala | 3,570 |
| Caml | 1,889 |
| Io | 1,760 |
| Clojure | 782 |
1 combines Lisp, Scheme, Common Lisp, Arc & Clojure
2 combines OCaml, (S)ML, Caml
3 summed separate searches for sml and ml
Update 4/23/09 added C#, Tcl per comment requests.
Tags: arc, clojure, common_lisp, erlang, forth, haskell, io, java, javascript, lisp, lua, ocaml, perl, php, python, ruby, scala, scheme, smalltalk, sml, tcl
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“implemented in C#” 90.500
“written in C#” 615.000 -
Please include tcl,
may be between Lisp and ML
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@crimson13, @anonymous – thanks for the requests. I added both. I find it interesting that I didn’t include C# initially since I programmed in it for 2 or 3 years. I suppose I’ve suppressed all things M$ :)
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pascal = 9230, 65,900
delphi = 114,000, 3030 -
implemented in COBOL: 392.000
written in COBOL: 1.170.000 -
implemented in Fortran: 1.290.000
written in Fortran: 2.410.000 -
@Cesar you need to search in quotes. For example, when I search for “written in cobol”, I get 39,900 instead of 1M+
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