Top 5 Most Popular Programming languages of 2012

Computer is dominating all over the world today. It has become all most the part of every person’s life. Its applications are being widely used. As such computer is hardware eventually of no use without a software. Software is something that instructs the computer or other electronic devices to perform certain actions or tasks. And these software’s are generally made using Programming languages. There are hundreds of programming languages which could be used for this purpose. Every language has its own unique advantages and disadvantages. So according to recent Hacker’s news Poll about the favourite languages, the top 5 Most Popular Programming Languages are:

 5)     C#

With 814 Points , C# is at number 5 in this list. It was devolped by Microsoft and first appeared in 2001. C# is intended to be a simple, modern, general-purpose, object-oriented programming language. Its development team is led by Anders Hejlsberg. The most recent version is C# 4.0, which was released on April 12, 2010. A simple “Hello World” Example of C# is given below.

using System;

class Program

{

    static void Main()

    {

        Console.WriteLine("Hello world!");

    }

}

4) C

With 959 points , C language is at 4^th spot in this list. C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed by Dennis Ritchie and first appeared in 1972. It is one of the most widely used programming languages of all time. C# is also an extension of C. C language is often used for “System programming”. It can also be used as Website Programming using CGI as a gateway for information between Web application, the server and browser. The Primary implementations of Python,Perl5 and PHP are all written in C. . A simple “Hello World” Example of C is given below

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)

{

    printf("hello, world\n");

    return 0;

}

3)     JAVA SCRIPT

On the 3^rd spot is JAVA SCRIPT securing 1385 points, was developed by Brendan Eich and was first appeared in 1995.  It is sometimes abbreviated as JS. JS is a prototype-based scripting language supporting object-oriented, imperative and functional programming styles. It supports most of the structured programming syntax from C. Similar to C, JS makes a distinction between expressions and statements. And unlike C, Js uses automatic semicolon insertion, in which the semicolons that terminates statements can be omitted. . A simple “Hello World” Example of JAVA SCRIPT is given below

alert("Hello world!");

2) RUBY

At 2^nd spot with 1697 points.  Ruby is a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant Syntax that is natural to use and easy to write. Ruby supports multiple programming paradigms, including functional, object oriented, imperative and reflective. Ruby is an object oriented language. Every value is treated as an object, including classes and instances of types that many other languages designate as primitives. A simple “Hello World” example in Ruby is given below.

puts "Hello World!"

 1)     Python

Python is most popular programming language and with 3026 points it is awarded at 1^st spot. Python was designed by Guido van Rossum and was first appeared in 1991. It is a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively. Python runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac, OS X . It is free to use , even for commercial products. Python is often used as scripting language for web applications. Python is intended to be a highly readable language. It is designed to have an uncluttered visual layout, frequently using English keywords where other languages use punctuation. A simple “Hello World” example in Python is given below

print("Hello world")