We started with the same ones, I am just younger And moved for 10 years into sound and music editing. Now PHP, AJAX and who knows what comes next…

Thanx for the article.

Not bad.

Could I recommend adding lines so that the bar can be better corresponded with the language in the charts?

Thanks to your blog of Haskell I have a new language to try out & learn. Take care!

That said, the trend towards scripting languages is significant, and it’s really telling, expecially for someone who (as you admit) likes them and to learn them. It’s pretty clear that people have just more fun using scripting languages, and that allows us to be more productive when doing paid work.

But in the mid 90′s the overwhelmingly popular choice for writing
CGI scripts was Perl, and I know you must have at least had to read
some Perl during your career – yet it doesn’t appear in your chart.
Randal Schwartz wrote a nice essay about the things that Eric Raymond
thinks that “Perl got right” (ttp://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col44.html).
And when I joined a PHP project a couple of years ago I was quite
flabbergasted to learn that PHP 4 had nothing like “taint mode”,
even though lots of folks were using PHP to write exactly the same
bugs that had been written almost decade earlier in Perl, before
script programmers learned how to safely “untaint” their input.

I loved your essay about language mavens vs. IDE mavens, and now
you’ve got me thinking about the “cultural” speciation (languages,
tools, patterns, and idioms) which tends to develop around different
problem domains, and whether or not this is a good thing for the
general practice of software development.