Most Popular Programming Languages..
 

* Ada
* Assembly
* Cobol
* ColdFusion
* D
* Delphi
* Erlang
* Forth
* Fortran
* Haskell
* Lisp
* Lua
* Objective C
* OCaml
* Pascal
* Perl
* Python
* Ruby
* SQL
* Scheme
* Shell
* Smalltalk
* Tcl

Which languages out of those (pick 2), are the most popular?

Where are C, C++, C# on that list :o

They're already on my website. :)

I just need 2 more (for my programming/coding discussion forum) to make it the way I want it, and I want the most popular ones. If I'm missing any, let me know, but so far, I have...

AJAX, ASP, C#, C, C++, CSS, Flash, HTML, JS, PHP, XML, Java, Visual Basic and Other.

I need 16 to make it even and work the way I want it. So really, I just need two more languages besides the ones on that list. Any ideas?

Ruby, SQL.

Missing: RPG is still widely used on IBM mini-/mainframes.

(And yes i do speak both RPG-II & RPG-III)

Well, I could keep adding languages, but I need to do it in fours. So if I use both of Ryan Ashbrook's, and then Marco's, I'll need three more. So which should I use? Should I just use Ryan's two?

PL/SQL (ya, I am a Oracle DBA lol)

I'd definitely add an SQL forum

Ohh yes PL/SQL is a must also.

PS SQL is already in the list.

Most popular in what sense ?

I don't think you guys understand. On my website, I have a few language sections (AJAX, ASP, C#, C, C++, CSS, Flash, HTML, JS, PHP, XML, Java, Visual Basic and Other.), and that list that I posted in post 1, was a list I found on Google of other languages. So I just need two more languages (or six) picked from that list and/or not on the list.

I need two more languages (or six) to add to my website.

@Paul: Popular as in, more people use it, more people globally in the world are interested in it.

Well mySQL and Python are the clear winners.

A good Lisp forum (and Lisp derivates: scheme, common lisp, clojure ect.) would be more interesting though.

Everyone is right to question your wording though. As you put several different classes of languages on your list. Utility languages like mySQL (commonly used by other languages), high level general purpose languages like python and ruby, and low level languages like Assembly.

Python is most popular because big companies use it for their front end users like google :)

<a href="http://lolcode.com/" target="_blank">LOL Code</a> ftw...........

But as far as that list hmmm...

Scheme is pretty much lisp and I hate them both.
So uh yeah... Stick with Python and SQL as has been mentioned. Python is my first love.

Replace Flash with ActionScript.

What market are you aiming for? Hobby programmers? Those working professionally developing high-end financial systems? Website developers?

Nonsense. Python is no way near the most widely used programming language.

Well I am not sure if it is a corporate standard, like one poster suggested. However, it is definitely a very popular standard in academia for scientific calculations. (when C/C++ modules have not been needed/written.)

I'd have to respectfully disagree with you there. If I want to do scientific calculations I'll have several prerequisites, which normally either fall under speed of execution, or reliability/accuracy. For either of those, I wouldn't choose python, and I don't think most academics would either.

Java and C are clearly the most popular programming languages, however. C is used for everything. Even PHP is built using C. And Java is used by millions of organisations around the world (NASA for one), and in our mobile phones etc.

Sources:
http://langpop.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measuri...age_popularity

Haha... Respectfully, I don't think I understand your disagreement. I am especially worried that you think that there are problems with Python's reliability and accuracy. There is certainly no cause for concern there. Python can use double point precision (which is more than precise enough for any practical purposes) and is far less prone to failure due to minor errors.

It is true that C/C++ modules are used in some special cases. But generally those are developed and are meant to handle things that require an especially high degree of optimization. For everyday computing, almost everything is done in either Python or Matlab. At least in my experience, and the experience of my friends.

~Tim

PS. I think that this discussion highlights the point we have been trying to make: the popularity of languages is going to vary vastly depending on your target audience.

;) I agree with your last point, if you're dealing with embedded devices you're going to be working in C or something even lower. If you're studying at university you're likely to learn Java or C++. That's the whole point of having different programming languages :) However, you misconstrued what I was trying to say about Python. Perhaps accuracy shouldn't have fell into my argument quite as much, but when you're dealing with scientific calculations that require mission critical accuracy and more importantly reliability you're going to use a language that is far more stable in nature. Most of the world's major airlines which require practically 100% reliability on their flight booking systems, use Lisp, for example.