Today's fun was going through TIOBE and drilling into highly-ranked but otherwise obscure contestants :
* (a) => "apparently"
- #10 Delphi / Object Pascal
: some blokes in Europe have been implementing business software on it : 6,000 SMBs consume this (a) - #11 Scratch
: 100 million children use it, under the MIT Media Lab (a) - #22 Prolog
: used in academia to teach Logic Programming (a) : so its current prominence was news to me ... in theory all it does is roll certain algorithms under the hood, so that the entire language is branded as a Logic Programming language ... its runtime implementations are not particularly fast otherwise, and the syntax has descended to Erlang which is a much more industrialised language with robust implementations. I was wondering if the AI majors are popularising this, but they are not (a) - #44 X++
: another B2B language, once from IBM, now under MSFT (a) - #46 GML
: a gaming company's community language - #47 LabVIEW
: used heavily in engineering draughting, a graphical programming language (a) - #49 Solidity
: oh, crypto! Ethereum! - #50 Visual FoxPro
: another SMB systems legacy language (a)
- #17 MATLAB
: legacy commercialised linear algebra software from the 80s - #20 Ada
: US defense industry stalwart ( mandate removed in 1997 ) - #24 Kotlin
: a modern general purpose language for the JVM, and the second most popular - #25 SAS
: ancient statistical programming language from the 70s, with a commercia legacy - #33 ML
: predecessor of ML, a bit of an ecosystem uncle
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