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posted by janrinok on Monday September 16 2019, @09:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the use-whatever-you-want dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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. 

[...] They go on to note that Facebook, which was originally built with PHP, launched its alternative to PHP, Hack, in 2014 and since then JavaScript, TypeScript and Python have become the most popular languages for web development. 


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  • (Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Monday September 16 2019, @01:24PM (1 child)

    by PiMuNu (3823) on Monday September 16 2019, @01:24PM (#894591)

    I thought visual basic was some microsoft thing for putting pseudo code into spreadsheets?

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday September 16 2019, @03:02PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 16 2019, @03:02PM (#894621) Journal

    That was VBA -- Visual Basic for Applications.

    But VB was a stand alone programming language that could also interoperate with applications via COM. For example, you could build an entire program in VB, complete with a GUI, but it could use, say, Excel, as if it were nothing more than a programming library. Load a spreadsheet. Modify it. Save it back out as a file -- without any Excel user interface ever appearing on screen.

    Microsoft Access was a simple, easy to use database. A perfect match for VB. Thus a lot of business applications turned into VB + Access. Yuk! But like a lot of microsoft products offered a combination of "the first hit is free" plus "it is deliciously addictive and you just can't stop" plus "it's not too expensive".

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