Lojic Technologies Blog » ocaml http://lojic.com/blog Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:12:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Programming Language Popularity – Part Two http://lojic.com/blog/2009/10/24/programming-language-popularity-part-two/ http://lojic.com/blog/2009/10/24/programming-language-popularity-part-two/#comments Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:23:23 +0000 Brian Adkins http://lojic.com/blog/?p=781 I compiled some programming language popularity statistics in April and mentioned I’d update the results in 6 months, so here they are:

I made a number of Google searches of the forms below and averaged the results:

"implemented in <language>"
"written in <language>"

Language # Results
Apr 09		 # Results
Oct 09		 Position
Delta
C 1,905,500 16,975,000 0
C++ 699,000 6,270,000 +1
Java 850,000 5,118,000 -1
PHP 680,000 5,083,500 0
Lisp Family1 176,507 3,489,650 +3
Python 396,000 3,407,000 -1
Perl 365,500 3,132,500 -1
C# 349,700 2,125,000 -1
Scheme 86,450 2,100,000 +2
FORTRAN 1,621,000 N/A
JavaScript 102,700 1,163,000 -1
ML Family2 29,062 1,003,800 +3
(S)ML3 5,173 590,700 +12
Common Lisp 20,600 554,500 +5
Lisp 61,900 486,500 -2
Prolog 17,750 390,500 +4
Tcl 44,800 382,000 -3
OCaml 22,000 343,500 0
Arc 6,775 286,500 +4
Haskell 22,550 280,500 -4
COBOL 247,300 N/A
Ruby 99,650 227,000 -10
Io 1,760 198,500 +6
Smalltalk 9,105 187,500 -1
Erlang 22,285 161,700 -7
Forth 6,465 146,450 -1
Lua 13,065 131,800 -5
Caml 1,889 69,600 0
Scala 3,570 66,250 -2
Clojure 782 62,200 0

1 combines Lisp, Scheme, Common Lisp, Arc & Clojure
2 combines OCaml, (S)ML, Caml
3 summed separate searches for sml and ml

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"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.

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