Based on languages mentioned inthis thread, I’m curious as to which ones are the most common in use today.
So, answer the above poll based on which language you spend the most number of hours per year
Currently I only develop in C#. (OK, I may do a very rare stint supporting an old piece of software in C++. This year that would be less than 20 hours for the entire year. Less than 15).
I guess you posted before the poll was up. Do you want to vote in the poll?
Not sure if SQL counts as a programming language but it’s what I use most often.
Lately I use PHP whenever I can, but I’ve used far more ASP than PHP so I voted ASP.
Some more resources to (sorta kinda maybe) get a snapshot of what’s popular out there:
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
http://www.google.com/trends
I have at times been given the job title “programmer” but I think it’s a misnomer. I’m a database developer. I spend all my time in FileMaker and it has its own scripting environment (unique to FileMaker) as well as layout mode and the environment in which the schema is defined, none of which use programming languages as anyone else knows them. (Or SQL, for that matter, except as a seldom-used second language). I can futz around in PHP as a third language for web based front ends but that’s also ancillary. AppleScript as a fourth. Shell scripting, but for me only at the babytalk levels, as fifth and sixth (unix and dos commands, respectively). Visual basic as a WAY pathetic seventh (I can hardly use it at all, have essentially only gotten as far as “proof of concept”)
Put Basic on there because I use my TI-86 calculator to make all sorts of little programs for my students. Working on my magnum opus right now, which is a takeoff of the Zork games (at least until I use up all my memory).
Great info! Thanks.
Typically, I develop algorithms in Matlab. Once the algorithm is finalized, I rewrite into C++.
I use Bash for scripting and have playing around with Python as a more portable alternative.
ASP isn’t a programming language, it’s an application framework. Most ASP code is written in VBScript. But you can write ASP in anything, even Perl, just like a CGI script can be written in anything.
Anywho, I picked Perl, since that’s what the bulk of my work consists of and what I use for my various hobby projects.
In this order: PHP, C++ with QT 4.5, Javascript (Unity3D), C#
I knew that. But it seems to be fairly acceptable to refer to ASP as a language for covenience purposes. I use VBscript in ASP.
It’s perl on average this year. Last year was about half way perl/ruby. This week it’s been mostly Erlang. Rest of the year seems to be mostly ActionScript.
OK, where does the Lisp/Scheme developer work and how can I kill them and take their place?
I guess I’m not too surprised that I’m the only Fortran user. All the public-domain USGS groundwater models are written in Fortran, and it’s still a pretty good option if all you’re doing is crunching numbers.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go flip the record over.
I dunno what it’s called, but I use SAS.
You have my deepest sympathies.
Yeah, when I program it’s in SAS.
So far, we have the following ranking
C++ 7 15.22%
C 6 13.04%
Perl 6 13.04%
Visual Basic 5 10.87%
C# 4 8.70%
ASP 3 6.52%
Bash 2 4.35%
Java 2 4.35%
Other 2 4.35%
PHP 2 4.35%
Basic 1 2.17%
Fortran 1 2.17%
Javascript 1 2.17%
Lisp/Scheme 1 2.17%
Object Pascal 1 2.17%
Python 1 2.17%
R 1 2.17%
(I wish we could sort the poll results in the browser)
I’ve done a few things in Perl, but I have far from what I’d call a decent command of it. Eons ago I programmed test equipment in Labview (G); that was the most fun I’ve had programming. These days I’m doing things in AppleScript, and, since my friend and I are developing an iPhone app, I suspect that I will be drawn into the ever-expanding empire of Objective-C soon enough.