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most popular languages through the decades: Python Java C Fortran platform languages: the web browser† = Javascript†† apple = Objective C mic
by mmphosis 14y ago
most popular languages through the decades:
Python
Java
C
Fortran
platform languages:
the web browser† = Javascript††
apple = Objective C
microsoft = C#
google = Go
unix = C
† the web browser is most importantly platform agnostic
†† Javascript and Java are two different languages. Java is more like C.
Java was once the platform language of now defunct sun.
I consider the language of the linux kernel to be C and i386 assembler. Linux itself is too much of a bazaar to have a "platform" language.
and a table:
lambda calculus | machine memory |
----------------+----------------+--------------------
Haskell | C | language as given
----------------+----------------+--------------------
Common Lisp | Forth | language as medium
and others:
Python vs. Ruby
Assembler
HTML
CSS
SQL
PHP
Perl
Prolog
Basic
Erlang
and yet another...