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by simonblack 1035 days ago
Good ol' C, still in the 'most used' group 40 years later. The other four? Not so much today.
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I think the craziest thing is the (far in the distance) runner up is probably prolog, which is also maybe the most unique of the bunch.
And they missed assembly, COBOL and BASIC which probably was the other 49% of professional programming. Though they may have had a different context in mind when they wrote this.
It was a small shop but I worked for a company that used DSPs running forth. It was my first introduction to meta programming. I learned a lot there
C has been a disaster for software stability and security. We should have stuck with Ada or Oberon.