It’s a day, just like any other day. You run Software Update, and it installs Safari 5.0. After re-booting, you find that Finder crashes repeatedly. You start worrying.
You then run Safari to see if anybody else on the Web has experienced the same problem. But no, Safari won’t start at all, and keeps crashing. You try to keep calm.
So you start Software Update, to see if Apple has released a patch to fix the problem… Only… “Software Update quit unexpectedly”… Aaaaaah! 
According to the TIOBE Programming Community Index, as of February 2011, Python has just overtaken PHP as the 4th most popular programming language. That’s a big jump from 7th this time last year. It’s now just spitting distance behind C++, but has some way to go to catch up to C and Java. Yay for Python, my favourite language!
Here’s the obligatory graph:
Interestingly, C# on position #6 is catching up to PHP slowly, and might pass it soon.
Java, C and C++, though still very popular, seem to be declining steadily. Perl and Visual Basic seem doomed to obscurity. Good riddance. Ugh.
And check out how Object-C came out of nowhere, a result of the blossoming of the iPhone market.
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