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glen herrmannsfeldt

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May 25, 2010, 9:53:11 PM5/25/10
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http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

It seems that Fortran isn't in the top 20, tied with
RPG and Bourne shell.

-- glen

Gib Bogle

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May 25, 2010, 11:19:47 PM5/25/10
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Interesting that C has overtaken Java. Never heard of PHP. Also surprising
that Delphi is holding its own.

Craig Powers

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May 28, 2010, 5:02:35 PM5/28/10
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PHP has become one of the more common web languages. Depending on where
you browse, you may see pages ending in ".php" fairly frequently.

Uno

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May 28, 2010, 6:14:28 PM5/28/10
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I don't take things like that too personally. C is now number one. We
have very useful C bindings, and C knows how to call fortran in the
scientific apps that is this huge body of source and libraries.

Maybe that no one's getting rich off fortran is the "problem."
--
Uno

Steve Lionel

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Jun 2, 2010, 4:44:22 PM6/2/10
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If you look at
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/tpci_definition.htm you'll
see that the method of determining a language's popularity is to see how
many people searched for "<languagename> programming" - not a very
objective measure, in my view.

Maybe we should all regularly search for "fortran programming" to raise
the profile?

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Paul van Delst

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Jun 2, 2010, 5:08:39 PM6/2/10
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Steve Lionel wrote:
> Maybe we should all regularly search for "fortran programming" to raise
> the profile?

Via cronjobs fired off every, oh, say, minute or so? :oD

(To the humourless guvmint worker tracker type folk out there: that was a joke.)

Jovan Cormac

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Jun 4, 2010, 11:03:54 AM6/4/10
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While I'm by no means offended, I somehow find those statistics hard to
believe. Of course C and Java come before Fortran, but Lisp??? Lua, a
program extension language??? They probably didn't count the zillions of
lines of Fortran code hidden inside special-purpose machines...

J. Clarke

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Jun 5, 2010, 10:12:25 AM6/5/10
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Read the whole page--they seem to be looking at what is fashionable (I
mean one of their sources is _youtube_) and explicitly state that they
are NOT addressing the number of lines of extant code.

p.ki...@ic.ac.uk

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Jun 6, 2010, 4:14:22 PM6/6/10
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> While I'm by no means offended, I somehow find those statistics hard to
> believe. Of course C and Java come before Fortran, but Lisp??? Lua, a
> program extension language???

FWIW, Lisp is used in emacs, a moderately popular and somewhat
extensible editor.

#Paul

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