Fortran, conceived at IBM in the late XNUMXs as a more practical alternative to assembly language, reinstates itself on the list of the top twenty programming languages, more than half a century after its first release. According to April XNUMX statistics via TIOBE Watchdog programming, Fortran rose to the top after being absent for over a decade. "Take a look at Fortran!" This dinosaur is back in the top twenty after more than ten years,” TIOBE points out in its monthly rankings, which are based on a variety of factors and are generally considered a good indication of the popularity of programming languages.
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Fortran stands out for being the first commercial programming language. TIOBE is associating its renaissance with the growing need for ever larger numbers, especially for scientific use cases, in which Fortran excels. In the first month of the year 5, Fortran was ranked XNUMXth, but had achieved more than XNUMX places to rise to XNUMXnd position in the month of March XNUMX, before landing in the XNUMXth position this month. Fortran's achievements should be encouraging for Objective-C. By the time it was the go-to language for app development for iOS and macOS, before it was replaced by Swift in XNUMX, Objective-C's popularity steadily declined and it ultimately fell out of the top twenty this year. month. Still, business as usual at the top of the charts, where Python, which was named Programming Language of the Year for Most Popularity in XNUMX, remains the third most popular language after Java, which ranked first. site in last site. month. That honor belongs again to the evergreen C language, which remains a developer darling despite having been in use for almost XNUMX decades. Via: ZDNet