Perl may be increasing in popularity because Perl 5 is consistently updated, but the exact reason for its rise is difficult to pinpoint.

TIOBE has published its latest Programming Community Index, which ranks the most popular programming languages based on data from the Internet. To compile the index, TIOBE uses search engines and ...

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Java, JavaScript and Python are invariably the three most popular programming languages in several indexes, but their exact order varies depending on how the ranking is calculated. Lately most have ...