Here is a link on the research on the programming languages' market. It is from October 20, 2005 and this research might be outdated already but we can still see the trend on the programming languages through this research.
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Programming Language Popularity to read the whole research.
Here's the introduction of the research:
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This article seems to be generating a lot more interest than I had imagined. Please read this before you comment on it.
* It is for fun. It is not an article I'm being paid to write, so I do the best I can with the resources available to me. These include freely available sources on the web. Part of why I think the survey does have some broad validity is that I have attempted to utilize a variety of sources. In a future version, I think I may also attempt to include data from Amazon about books available on various subjects.
* Why isn't XYZ in the list?! There are lots of programming languages out there. In a recent job, I was programming Erlang, and liked it a lot. But to give some sort of cutoff, I chose the Overture dollars/click data, which isn't present for lots of "minor" languages. For instance, Cobol figures better in Overture than Lisp and Prolog do, even though Lisp is in my opinion far, far more interesting.
* If you think the methodology could use improvement, well then by all means send me some email with your ideas, or if you're the independent sort, go off and do your own work if you think you can do better.
* "Windows" and "Unix" programming. These are obviously not programming language (although from comments I am getting maybe not as obvious as I had thought). They are just queries I threw in as extra data points, for the fun of it. Sheesh!
* If you just want to look at one big chart with lots of pretty colors that has "the results", scroll to the very end of this article.
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