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Title: Ada Beats SQL, Perl, and Fortan for #10 Spot on Programming Language
Popularity Index

Link: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/07/1...

An anonymous reader shared this report from InfoWorld: Tiobe CEO Paul Jansen
says Ada, a system programming language whose initial development dates back
to the late 1970s, could outlast similarly aged languages like Visual Basic,
Perl, and Fortran in the language popularity race. In comments on this
month's Tiobe language popularity index, posted July 9, Jansen said the index
has not seen much change among leading languages such as Python, C#, and Java
over the past two years. But there is more movement among older languages
such as Visual Basic, SQL, Fortran, Ada, Perl, and Delphi, said Jansen. Every
time one of these languages is expected to stay in the top 10, it is replaced
by another language, he said. Even more remarkably, newer languages have yet
to rise above them. "Where are Rust, Kotlin, Dart, and Julia? Apparently,
established languages are hot." "Which one will win? Honestly, this is very
hard to tell," Jansen writes, "but I would put my bets on Ada. With the ever-
stronger demands on security, Ada is, as a system programming language in the
safety-critical domain, likely the best survivor." Perhaps proving his point,
one year ago, Ada was ranked #24 - but on this month's index it ranks #9.
(Whereas the eight languages above it all remain in the exact same positions
they held a year ago...) PythonC++CJavaC#JavaScriptGoVisual
BasicAdaDelphi/Object Pascal

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