Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp

[Paul Eggert]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> On my daytime job, customers started frowning on projects implemented in C++ 
> several years ago.

Reliable statistics in this area are hard to come by, but for what it's 
worth the TIOBE index for February 2014 says:

 18.334% C
 17.316% Java
 11.341% Objective C
  6.892% C++
  6.450% C#
  4.219% PHP
  2.759% Visual Basic
  2.157% Python
  1.929% JavaScript
  1.798% Visual Basic .NET
  ...
  0.236% Emacs Lisp
  ...

A decade ago, C++'s popularity was in the 15-20% range.  The biggest 
up-and-comer on the above list is Objective C.

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html