Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 00:37:51 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > On my daytime job, customers started frowning on projects implemented in 
> > C++ several years ago.
> 
> Reliable statistics in this area are hard to come by, but for what it's 
> worth the TIOBE index for February 2014 says:
> 
>   18.334% C
>   17.316% Java
>   11.341% Objective C
>    6.892% C++
>    6.450% C#
>    4.219% PHP
>    2.759% Visual Basic
>    2.157% Python
>    1.929% JavaScript
>    1.798% Visual Basic .NET
>    ...
>    0.236% Emacs Lisp
>    ...
> 
> A decade ago, C++'s popularity was in the 15-20% range.  The biggest 
> up-and-comer on the above list is Objective C.

Thanks.

This basically tells the same story as what I had in my mind.  Of
course, the statistics also varies according to the application's
domain and the target OS (in my case, it's either Windows or
GNU/Linux, so Objective C is never required).