From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 00:37:51 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <53119C5F.7030606@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87txbn8r6x.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <8338j717oe.fsf@gnu.org> <87zjlf6tdx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83sir7yue7.fsf@gnu.org> <8761o3dlak.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83bnxuzyl4.fsf@gnu.org> <871tyqes5q.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87a9ddg7o8.fsf@engster.org> <87d2i9ee8t.fsf@engster.org> <874n3ke1qn.fsf@engster.org> <87vbvzcjv9.fsf@engster.org> <87iorz18fy.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87a9db15v8.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <8761nz0xje.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <871tym1ll1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83mwhauyfc.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1393663081 17815 80.91.229.3 (1 Mar 2014 08:38:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 08:38:01 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 01 09:38:10 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WJfQv-00035q-Qh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2014 09:38:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54724 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WJfQv-0005o2-1N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2014 03:38:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56766) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WJfQn-0005nh-0z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2014 03:38:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WJfQh-000541-0S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2014 03:38:00 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:56587) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WJfQg-00053q-Og for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2014 03:37:54 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6491A60002 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2014 00:37:53 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id VPV37SK6OpUC for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2014 00:37:52 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-108-0-233-62.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [108.0.233.62]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 416C6A60001 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2014 00:37:52 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 In-Reply-To: <83mwhauyfc.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:169976 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > On my daytime job, customers started frowning on projects implemented in C++ several years ago. Reliable statistics in this area are hard to come by, but for what it's worth the TIOBE index for February 2014 says: 18.334% C 17.316% Java 11.341% Objective C 6.892% C++ 6.450% C# 4.219% PHP 2.759% Visual Basic 2.157% Python 1.929% JavaScript 1.798% Visual Basic .NET ... 0.236% Emacs Lisp ... A decade ago, C++'s popularity was in the 15-20% range. The biggest up-and-comer on the above list is Objective C. http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html