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Python sits firmly in top place in the newest annual ranking of popular programming languages by IEEE Spectrum.
The ranking and others like it are meant to help developers understand the popularity of languages in a world where no one really knows what programmers are using on their laptops.
IEEE Spectrum has placed Python in first spot since 2017, and last year it was just ahead of C++. The top language is given a score of 100, and all languages with lower scores are scaled in relation to it. C++ last year scored 99.7, followed by Java at 97.5, and C with 96.7.
Today, in the IEEE Spectrum's sixth annual ranking, Python's 100 is a long way ahead of runner-up Java's 96.3 score, while C is in third place with 94.4. C++ has slipped to fourth with 87.5, while in fifth is specialist statistical computing language R with a score of 81.5.
The magazine for engineering members of IEEE, the world's biggest engineering and applied-science organization, attributes Python's popularity to the vast number of specialized libraries it has, especially for developers building artificial-intelligence applications.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Nuke on Monday September 16 2019, @12:17PM (1 child)
I take it that Python being 100 and C++ being 99.7 (last year) does not men that for every 1000 programers using Python, 997 were using C++. Even Assembly got 74.1 FFS.
Sounds like the scores in a synchronised swimming contest - no-one gets less than 9 because that would be upsetting.
(Score: 1) by shrewdsheep on Monday September 16 2019, @12:56PM
If you want an objective way, that is what quantiles [wikipedia.org] are for.