approx - Slashdot User

Are C and C++ Losing Ground? 961

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday April 24, 2008 @04:33PM from the lots-of-ground-to-lose dept.

Pickens writes "Dr. Dobbs has an interesting interview with Paul Jansen, the managing director of TIOBE Software, about the Programming Community Index, which measures the popularity of programming languages by monitoring their web presence. Since the TIOBE index has been published now for more than 6 years, it gives an interesting picture about trends in the usage of programming languages. Jansen says not much has affected the top ten programming languages in the last five years, with only Python entering the top 10 (replacing COBOL), but C and C++ are definitely losing ground. 'Languages without automated garbage collection are getting out of fashion,' says Jansen. 'The chance of running into all kinds of memory problems is gradually outweighing the performance penalty you have to pay for garbage collection.'"

Comment Re:Shell support (Score 1) 308

by approx on Tuesday December 11, 2007 @04:52AM (#21652955) Attached to: Hacking VIM

You don't need that to compile and build files/projects, since vim can execute "make" and give you a nice list of results (warnings, errors). And you can jump to the locations of those errors/warnings by using the quickfix-window. You might want to check out ":help :make" and ":help quickfix-window".

Slashdot Top Deals