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2017 Top Programming Languages

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Re: 2017 Top Programming Languages

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Post by ratinacage »

ctz wrote: post #14

"Arduino" is a programming language now?

The name Arduino refers to a platform. This platform has its own programming language. The platform is actually a fork of Wiring[1]. It seems there is really no better name for the language other than "the Arduino language."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiring_(development_platform)

Re: 2017 Top Programming Languages

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Post by rwj »

mirekrusin wrote: post #7

Something's fishy with this ranking, ie. web-only list has "Processing" before "Clojure", "PHP" before "Ruby" and "Go", for enterprise-only "C" before "Java" - I don't buy it, this data looks like garbage.

Perhaps your circle of experience isn't representative of the wider community? Personally, I don't find the ranking of PHP surprising. One word, WordPress. Plus, there are probably bespoke PHP applications running in countless companies.

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Post by rwj »

anfractuosity wrote: post #23

I don't understand why HTML is in there? I can obviously understand the scripting languages you can embed in HTML being there, but they're listed separately anyway.

This is a common complaint. It's not mentioned in the interactive chart, but the print article explains their reasoning.

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Post by poggi »

anfractuosity wrote: post #23

I don't understand why HTML is in there? I can obviously understand the scripting languages you can embed in HTML being there, but they're listed separately anyway.

They have an explanation for that in the full blog post http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-2017-top-pro...:

"(This is a great moment for us to reiterate our response to the complaint of some in years past of “HTML isn’t a programming language, it’s just markup.” At Spectrum, we have a very pragmatic view about what is, and isn’t, a recognizable programming language. HTML is used by coders to instruct computers to do things, so we include it. We don’t insist on, for example, Turing completeness as a threshold for inclusion—and to get really nitpicky, as user Jonny Lin pointed out last year, HTML has grown so complex that when combined with CSS, it is now Turing complete, albeit with a little prodding and requiring an appreciation of cellular automata.)"

Re: 2017 Top Programming Languages

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Post by anfractuosity »

poggi wrote: post #28
anfractuosity wrote: post #23

I don't understand why HTML is in there? I can obviously understand the scripting languages you can embed in HTML being there, but they're listed separately anyway.

They have an explanation for that in the full blog post http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-2017-top-pro... : "(This is a great moment for us to reiterate our response to the complaint of some in years past of “HTML isn’t a programming language, it’s just markup.” At Spectrum, we have a very pragmatic view about what is, and isn’t, a recognizable programming language. HTML is used by coders to instruct co…

Cheers, I hadn't seen that.
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