By Justin Silverton

Introduction

The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the world-wide availability of skilled engineers, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, and Yahoo! are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TPC index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.

Where PHP stands currently (In the month of october)

Position (Oct 2006): 4
Position (Oct 2005): 4
Ratings (Oct 2006): 9.863%
Delta (Oct 2005): +0.19%
Status: A

The status of A means it is a mainstream programming language language

The full list can be found here: http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm

Some more interesting facts about this list: Java, C, and C++ makeup #s 1-3. F#, a Beta microsoft programming language also made the list (#56). Paul Jenson had this to say about it:

“The first official beta of this Microsoft programming language has been released 3 months ago. This variant of C# with many functional aspects is already at position 56 of the TIOBE index. James Huddlestone (Apress) and Robert Pickering draw my attention to F# via e-mail. Later Ralf Herbrich from the X-box team of Microsoft wrote to me “After working with F# for the last 9 months, I firmly believe that F# has the potential to be the scientific computing language of the future.”

I wonder how many people are still using classic ASP?