Programming Language Popularity: The TCP Index for October, 2004

"In the newest poll, the overall positioning is not much different from last month. C continues to be ahead of Java. In fact, the top 15 positions remain the same as they did last month. Granted, this is much different than the positions of a year ago (as shown by the icons in the chart). What is interesting to note, however, is the change in percentages from last month. For example, C remains in the lead with the strongest percentage of 18.172. This actually higher than last month's 17.122%. Java also increased its percentage from last month going from 15.896% to 17.050%. The first language to drop is actually (Visual) Basic which went from 11.650% to 9.760% in the last month. In the last year, however, (Visual) Basic was up by 2.30%. "

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