LANGUAGES * = implemented $ = implemented but no interpreter compatible with autotest Rankings from freashmeat late 2003 number = number of projects on freshmeat.net (my crude ranking) C * 5631 PERL * 2802 C++ * 2545 Java * 2473 PHP * 2122 Python * 1235 Unix Shell * 565 TCL * 360 JavaScript $ 253 Assmembly * 179 Objctive C * 142 Ruby * 133 Lisp+CLisp * 98 Pascal+Delphi * 88 Scheme * 80 C# * 47 Fortran * 47 Ada * 44 Awk * 42 VBasic+Basic * 32 Haskell * 30 ML * 26 caml/OCaml * 23 SmallTalk * 21 Eiffel * 21 Forth * 17 Erlang * 11 Prolog * 8 Cobol * Modula * Pike * Rexx * lua * REBOL * Ferite * APL? 3 Rankings from http://merd.net/pixel/language-study Statistics on usenet 1999 and 2000 in 3 graphs java * c++ * c * perl * basic * python * javascript * tcl * ruby * pascal * ruby * lisp * ada * smalltalk * cobol * fortran * forth * scheme * eiffel * prolog * ml *