On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:52:48 +0100 "Henk-Jan van Tuyl" wrote:

Yesterday I saw Haskell mentioned for the first time in a magazine, Bits & Chips. It is a magazine for professionals, about hardware and software; the article was about the domain specific language Cryptol from Galois.

In the same issue of the magazine, there was an article saying that the company Tiobe has proclamed C the language of the year 2008, because of it's growth in popularity of almost two percent. The current statistics can befoud at [1]. The most popular functional language at the moment is LOGO [2], at the 15th place in the top 50 (from 22nd place a year ago).

I think we can fairly safely discount the commercial relevance of any language ranking which places LOGO so highly. It may be that a lot of people *know* LOGO (or claim to know it), but that does not mean that is used a lot for commercial programming. -- Robin

"Henk-Jan van Tuyl" writes:

My own research, using Google: Search Hits ------------------------------- Java programming 20.400.000 LOGO programming 14.600.000

I get about that number of hits googling for "logo programming" (without quotes). However, beyond the first 30 pages, most hits appear to refer to logo as in a graphical symbol representing an entity, rather than Logo the programming language. By this metric, the most popular language must be "links", with 37M hits. :-)

Haskell programming 250.000

-k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants