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While C’s number 2 spot is promising, the trends have more to say about C’s position in the programming world. Plummeting from second place... to second place
The HORROR
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Can you really talk about "C’s number 2 spot" in public? 
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how does one write an article like this and have self-respect?
C continues to thunder on in many spaces, esp the embedded world. Check back in 25 years....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: how does one write an article like this and have self-respect?
I suppose you write articles about Tiobe's farcedex every month the same way you write a blurb and link to it every month.
30 pieces of silver don't go nearly as far as they used to though...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I'd wager with IoT coming into play these days, C will be around for a while yet.
Jeremy Falcon
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That's because new generations of programmers are being fooled by the shiny easy thingies promised by Google & Co. Plus they don't have nor the education, the wits and the brains to get to learn the serious stuff.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Hmmmm, either...
0) C lost half its popularity and VB became half again as popular in the last year
1) One or more of the 3rd parties Tiobe scrapes data from made a major change to their output again (like what happened to java in their index a bit over a decade ago)
2) Their index is a dumpster fire with no relation to reality.
... I know which one of the three I find far less likely than the other two.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Google today announced the launch of App Maker, the newest entry in the low-code, drag-and-drop app building market. And now we're all out of work. Sorry, everyone
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Since there is an alleged programmer shortage; how about taking the programmers from these projects and put them on the one with shortages?
(FWIW, I've seen no shortage of programmers, just a shortage of budgets for them.)
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Shoot I'll work, cheap, but you still wont hire me
i cri evry tiem
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Yay! I always wanted to be a janitor. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Lightsail includes everything you need to launch your project quickly – a virtual machine, SSD-based storage, data transfer, DNS management, and a static IP – for a low, predictable monthly price. "I am sailing stormy waters, to be near you to be free."
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If you think businesses are souring on their IT processes, you should see networking. Have you met those guys?
All love to the networking guys, really. Don't shut off my ports, please!
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The ad-to-content ratio on that page was too high to actually read the article.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Know how much launching that satellite is really going to cost you Make sure you pick the red option, they go faster
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We are giving the opportunity to use PVS-Studio static code analyzer for free, for educational purposes, so that individual developers and enthusiastic teams could also fully use it. Free as in "first hit"
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He gives the kids free samples
Because he knows full well
That today's young innocent faces
Are tomorrow's clientele
-- Tom Lehrer, The Old Dope Peddler
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I think pvs-studio is a good tool, but it's not a silver bullet. It'll find a few bugs in your code, which often are just potential bugs, rather than real bugs. Still worth trying (especially considering that it's now free).
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In this GOTO Copenhagen 2016 talk, Mads Torgersen invites you to play around in the key of C#, see why it’s not your uncle’s, and discover where the language is headed. "Take another look. Please another look."
Probably nothing new here for people (especially if you're already using C# and looking towards 7), but handy all in one spot.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Take another look. Please another look."
Our coding standards clearly state that we should avoid "GOTO" 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Ah, yes, blind adherence to bureaucratic policy. The bane of human existence.
Actually, GOTO is sometimes the better, more elegant solution.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOzActually, GOTO is sometimes the better, more elegant solution.
Sometimes it may be a good idea to sit back and not jump to conclusions.
How many goto's have you used while doing C#, JavaScript or SQL queries?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: not jump
I see what you did there... 
Eddy Vluggen wrote: you used
I have used a few in C# & SQL.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
modified 30-Nov-16 18:01pm.
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Quote: How many goto's have you used while doing C# [..] ?
One.
Because it was the right tool for that job.
Is it considered that evil, that I feel the urge to justify myself for using it?
Ciao,
luker
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The last goto I used was in 1993, in some C code. The last I saw was in 2010, in some C code written by an otherwise brilliant hardware engineer.
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