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Programming Language Ranking

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The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors.

Position Jun 2008	Position Jun 2007	Delta in Position	Programming Language	Ratings Jun 2008	Delta Jun 2007	Status
1	1		Java	20.890%	+0.86%	A
2	2		C	15.513%	-0.45%	A
3	3		C++	10.806%	-0.31%	A
4	5		PHP	10.206%	+1.33%	A
5	4		(Visual) Basic	9.787%	+0.46%	A
6	6		Perl	5.548%	-0.63%	A
7	8		Python	4.899%	+1.74%	A
8	7		C#	4.058%	+0.57%	A
9	9		JavaScript	2.927%	+0.31%	A
10	10		Ruby	2.640%	+0.51%	A
11	13		Delphi	2.022%	+0.45%	A
12	14		D	1.445%	+0.19%	A
13	12		SAS	0.923%	-0.84%	A
14	11		PL/SQL	0.759%	-1.26%	A-
15	23		Pascal	0.596%	+0.11%	B
16	15		Lisp/Scheme	0.436%	-0.23%	B
17	17		Ada	0.421%	-0.21%	B
18	19		COBOL	0.379%	-0.21%	B
19	21		Lua	0.366%	-0.21%	B
20	24		ActionScript	0.341%	-0.05%	B