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Python Surges in Popularity. And So Does Perl
Last month, Python "reached the highest ranking a programming language ever had in the TIOBE index," according to TIOBE CEO Paul Jansen. "We thought Python couldn't grow any further, but AI code assistants let Python take yet another step forward." According to recent studies of Stanford Univers...
TIOBE's "Programming Community Index" attempts to calculate the popularity of languages using the number of skilled engineers, courses, and third-party vendors. It nows gives Python a 26.14% rating, which TechRepublic notes"is well ahead of the next two programming languages on this month's leaderboard: C++ is at 9.18% and C is 9.03%." TIOBE CEO Jansen " told TechRepublic in an email that many people were asking why Perl was becoming more popular, but he didn't have a definitive answer.
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