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Good ol' C, still in the 'most used' group 40 years later. The other four? Not so much today.

• bawolff 3y ago
  I think the craziest thing is the (far in the distance) runner up is probably prolog, which is also maybe the most unique of the bunch.
• hilsdev 3y ago
  It was a small shop but I worked for a company that used DSPs running forth. It was my first introduction to meta programming. I learned a lot there
• jacquesm 3y ago
  And they missed assembly, COBOL and BASIC which probably was the other 49% of professional programming. Though they may have had a different context in mind when they wrote this.
• timbit42 3y ago
  C has been a disaster for software stability and security. We should have stuck with Ada or Oberon.