The programming language charts
Everyone loves a list. I was looking at the TIOBE programming languages list for 2008 with some level of discomfort, thinking I was more out of touch than even I had thought, and scratching my head at the kids of today. I mean, D? And ABAP, Pascal, and Logo? But a bit of Googling showed up the community disquiet at the methodology underlying the list, which made me feel better. It pointed to a competitive list, the Language Usage Indicators, that had a (IMHO) more sensible top 20 that better sat with my own observations.
Even that list surprises me a little; the assertion that "Assembly" still gets a good workout makes me smile, and then wistfully remember long hours hand-assembling Z80 programs in 16K of RAM, and entering and debugging it with a hex editor. Tell that to the young web jockeys of today with their context-sensitive IDEs and GB of RAM. But even I defer to the PDP-8 programmers entering boot code by rocker switches in octal.
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