TIOBE 语言排名一个月更新一次。它的统计方法是基于全球有经验的工程师，科目和第三方厂商. 同时也参考来自google,msn,yahoo等搜索引擎计算得出的结果。当然，这个排名并不说明哪个语言绝对最好，但是它可以给你一个参考，当你构建一个新的软件系统时，应该采用什么样的语言.

http://www.tiobe.com/index.htm?tiobe_index

Position June 2006	Position June 2005	Delta in Position	Programming Language	Ratings June 2006	Delta June 2005	Status
1	2		Java	21.128%	+2.56%	A
2	1		C	18.253%	-1.11%	A
3	4		C++	10.670%	+0.95%	A
4	6		(Visual) Basic	10.185%	+3.41%	A
5	5		PHP	9.593%	+1.62%	A
6	3		Perl	6.002%	-4.37%	A
7	8		Python	3.464%	+0.66%	A
8	9		C#	3.238%	+0.45%	A
9	7		Delphi	2.393%	-0.50%	A
10	10		JavaScript	1.456%	+0.07%	A
11	14		SAS	1.373%	+0.28%	A
12	24	12 *	Visual FoxPro	1.036%	+0.66%	A
13	11		PL/SQL	0.959%	-0.37%	A
14	12		COBOL	0.650%	-0.73%	B
15	15		Lisp/Scheme	0.644%	-0.22%	A--
16	18		Ada	0.536%	-0.14%	B
17	19		Pascal	0.486%	+0.00%	B
18	26	8 *	D	0.485%	+0.13%	B
19	23		Ruby	0.479%	+0.10%	B
20	31	11 *	ColdFusion	0.453%	+0.18%	B

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