I thought I would try out Google Trends and compare popular programming languages. It appears that Java is still the big dog. Ruby came out of nowhere according to Google Trends. Click on the image to get a larger version.
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Comparing programming languages in Google Trends
May 10th, 2006 No Comments
Tags: .NET · Google-Trends · Java · perl · ruby
VMs
February 27th, 2006 No Comments
Jon Udell had a really interesting post detailing the number of Virtual Machines that reside on his various computers. I agree it would nice to see Sun increase its support for development of other languages based on the Java VM. I attended JavaOne in 2004 and there was a session on Groovy. [...]