[nylug-talk] Popularity of Programming Languages

[mbac@netgraft.com]

On Thu, 11 May 2006 9:37 am, Michael Bacarella wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 01:33:57AM -0400, Monjay Settro wrote:
>>  How are you gauging the use of popular programming languages? Does 
>> your method and observations coincide with Tiobe's?
>>
>>  http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm
>
> I'm kind of stunned that decades later, C is still very relevant.

Let me expand now that I've got some time on the subway to kill.

Is C's strong presence simply the weight of the huge body of existing 
code plus maintenance traffic?  Is anyone developing new applications 
today exclusively in C?  If so, why?

I still write C code, but it is always small pieces, in situations where 
we tried to do it in Java or Python and found that we were CPU 
bottlenecked.  Interestingly enough, because of how exceptional these 
cases are, the usual anti-C rhetoric is irrelevant. ;)