在編程語(yǔ)言流行度的評(píng)估方面，TIOBE一直是最為權(quán)威的機(jī)構(gòu)之一。它每個(gè)月都根據(jù)有經(jīng)驗(yàn)的使用者、相關(guān)課程、第三方廠商，以及來(lái)自多個(gè)大型搜索引擎的統(tǒng)計(jì)數(shù)據(jù)，發(fā)布前100名編程語(yǔ)言的份額，并進(jìn)行跨年度同期比較。

PositionOct 2008PositionOct 2007Delta in PositionProgramming LanguageRatingsOct 2008Delta Oct 2007Status11Java20.949%-0.67%A22C15.565%+0.97%A34C++10.954%+1.37%A43(Visual) Basic9.811%-1.35%A55PHP8.612%-0.89%A68Python4.565%+1.13%A76Perl4.419%-0.93%A87C#3.767%+0.03%A913Delphi3.288%+1.75%A1010Ruby2.860%+0.47%A119Java2.670%-0.01%A1212D1.333%-0.26%A1311PL/SQL1.024%-0.94%A-1414SAS0.600%-0.78%B1517Lua0.551%-0.04%B1621Pascal0.520%+0.10%B1722ActionScript0.506%+0.14%B1816COBOL0.491%-0.19%B1918Lisp/Scheme0.485%-0.09%B2015ABAP0.445%-0.40%B

PositionProgramming LanguageRatings21Logo0.430%22MATLAB0.404%23Fortran0.383%24Ada0.372%25FoxPro/xBase0.345%26RPG (OS/400)0.304%27LabVIEW0.248%28Prolog0.248%29DC0.242%30Awk0.217%31PL/I0.210%32Bourne shell0.200%33Smalltalk0.180%34Transact-SQL0.165%35Focus0.163%36Haskell0.161%37Scala0.147%38PowerShell0.144%39Groovy0.143%40Alice0.136%41Forth0.131%42Caml0.124%43Euphoria0.123%44REXX0.120%45CL (OS/400)0.118%46ML0.116%47Tcl/Tk0.116%48Natural0.115%49Erlang0.096%50Objective-C0.086%CategoryRatings October 2008Delta October 2007Object-Oriented Languages57.6%+4.0%Procedural Languages39.6%-3.1%Functional Languages1.9%-0.1%Logical Languages0.9%-0.8%CategoryRatings October 2008Delta October 2007Statically Typed Languages60.4%+3.8%Dynamically Typed Languages39.6%-3.8%