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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 16 2019, @08:15PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 16 2019, @08:15PM (#894791)

    Why on Earth would anybody be using pseudo code? Even for beginning programmers still learning, you're better off just using comments for that purpose. That way you already have comments about what you intend for a given block of code to do, even before you actually type it.

    People citing it's resemblance to pseudo-code and the whitespace thing should really just keep quiet as neither are good features of the language.

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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday September 18 2019, @06:11PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday September 18 2019, @06:11PM (#895758)

    With a sufficiently elegant language, most of the time you shouldn't *need* comments because you can tell what the code is doing just by looking at it.

    And the problem with comments is making sure they actually match the code as changes are made. If the comment is from 4 years and 3 major overhauls of the component ago, it may not be very useful, if not actively misleading.

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