I thought that the article that InfoWorld published recently is timely and relevant, "7 Programming Languages on the Rise". What surprised me was COBOL on this list. Seeing Python, Ruby, Javascript, Perl and Erlang all make sense. The argument behind COBOL is that it still runs the guts of many financial and health systems which were the first ones to integrate computer systems into the enterprise.
Java, C/C++/C#, and even PHP tend to dominate the headlines today as expected. With the modern internet and "big data" that tends to exist today, widely used scripting languages (Javascript, Python, Perl, Ruby, MATLAB) are gaining ground. The AJAX-driven rich internet continues to make these languages viable. CouchDB being mentioned with ErLang + Javascript was a surprise.
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