C is back on top

[VirtualAce]

And C# should have been above 10 points because everybody is supposed to learn it these days and is used for both desktop and web development.

Another blanket statement with no facts. Why should everyone be learning it - what if they don't develop for the desktop or for the web?

[idelovski]

Another blanket statement with no facts. Why should everyone be learning it - what if they don't develop for the desktop or for the web?

What do you mean no facts? C# is used for both desktop and web development unlike most other languages on that list and therefore it should have been much more popular than it actually is.

[MK27]

What do you mean no facts? C# is used for both desktop and web development unlike most other languages on that list and therefore it should have been much more popular than it actually is.

All of the top 8 (except maybe PHP) can and are used for both desktop and "web development", and most of the top 15. Server side web dev can be done in any language, and last time I checked C# is useless client side. Then it's worth remembering that most servers are actually linux or unix servers and C# is an MS technology. Who cares about a language that provides yet another server side interface (there is already more than plenty of that) and some Windows only GUI libs?

Usefulness is not the criteria anyway. I've seen numbers of people waxing eloquent about the elegance and usefulness of Haskell, yet it isn't even in the top 50. The criteria is (apparently) actual use.