Very Long Term History
To see the bigger picture, please find below the positions of the top 10 programming languages of many years back. Please note that these are average positions for a period of 12 months.
Programming Language
2021
2016
2011
2006
2001
1996
1991
1986
C
1
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
Java
2
1
1
1
3
30
-
-
Python
3
5
7
8
27
18
-
-
C++
4
3
3
3
2
2
2
8
C#
5
4
5
7
11
-
-
-
Visual Basic
6
13
-
-
-
-
-
-
JavaScript
7
8
10
10
9
33
-
-
PHP
8
6
4
4
19
-
-
-
R
9
17
33
-
-
-
-
-
SQL
10
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Lisp
34
27
13
14
16
7
4
2
Ada
36
26
19
16
22
8
8
3
(Visual) Basic
-
-
6
6
4
3
3
4
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index// Why learn C? David Griffiths on C's consistent popularity and what the language can do for you.
http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/06/why-learn-c.html What’s to love about C? -
https://mortoray.com/2012/06/11/whats-to-love-about-c/