It is always important for the IT people to know that:
1. Which language is rising exponentially?
2. Which language is in high demand?
3. By having knowledge of which language we can grab more job opportunity?
4. Which one is the highest paying language in your country?
And many more Just like ever year Tiobe has done complete survey and displayed the result for top 10 programming languages of 2010 and have compared from previous year. Just have a look over it.
The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, Wikipedia and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings.
It seems market of Java, C, C++ is not going to end up soon. C# is growing like monster this time. Perl is being most popular programming language in networking, file manipulation work under Unix Environment. Now web developers take this language very seriously and its growing again day by day. Job opportunity in Perl is very high in USA. Even salary is also handsome there for Perl developers. In India this language is still not so popular and job opportunity is very less. Scope is very bright in Perl but people go for the language only after seeing the package and popularity trend.
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