Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Why is [programming language] so...?


I saw an infographic recently called Why is [state] so... and thought it would be interesting to do the same for programming languages. Unfortunately, there's no convenient visualization (like a map) for programming languages, so screen shots will have to do.  Here are a few results for the languages that Google actually recognizes as programming languages.

ASP.NET


C++


C#


Cobol


Erlang


Fortran


Haskell


Java


JavaScript


Lisp


Objective-C


Perl


PHP


Python


Ruby


Smalltalk


VB.NET



As a long-time Java programmer, I'm just pleasantly surprised that "popular" was the top result instead of "slow."