Here is an extract of the results:

Position
Jan 2011
Position
Jan 2010
Delta in Position Programming
Language
Ratings
Jan 2011
Delta
Jan 2010
Status
1 1 Java 17.773% +0.29%   A
2 2 C 15.822% -0.39%   A
3 4 C++ 8.783% -0.93%   A
4 3 PHP 7.835% -2.24%   A
5 7 Python 6.265% +1.81%   A
6 6 C# 6.226% +0.46%   A
7 5 (Visual) Basic 5.867% -1.49%   A
8 12 Objective-C 3.011% +1.63%   A
9 8 Perl 2.857% -0.71%   A
10 10 Ruby 1.784% -0.69%   A
11 9 JavaScript 1.589% -1.12%   A
12 11 Delphi 1.287% -1.10%   A
13 18 Lisp 1.109% +0.53%   A
14 17 Pascal 0.919% +0.29%   A
15 - Assembly 0.864% +0.86%   A--
16 14 SAS 0.771% -0.04%   A--
17 30 Transact-SQL 0.758% +0.38%   A
18 33 RPG (OS/400) 0.717% +0.40%   A-
19 20 MATLAB 0.706% +0.17%   A--
20 28 Ada 0.679% +0.29%   B

If you add both Pascal and Delphi values, you'll get 1.287+0.919 = 2.206

That is, it will be in the Top Ten, above Ruby...

Since the Basic language category joins Visual Basic and Basic, this division is unfair!

Here is how Delphi is defined:
- Highest Rating (since 2001): 5.865% (7th position, August 2004)
- Lowest Rating (since 2001): 0.725% (12th position, January 2004)
- Paradigms: Object-Oriented
- Type system: Statically typed

And here is Pascal definition:
- Highest Rating (since 2004): 0.961% (12th position, September 2009)
- Lowest Rating (since 2004): 0.400% (18th position, September 2008)
- Paradigms: Procedural
- Type system: Statically typed

I guess they don't know anything about pascal. Is there still a "procedural" implementation of pascal?
None of course, since decades, pascal is object oriented.

I guess they made a confusion between the Free Pascal Compiler and the Embarcadero Delphi Compiler.
Even if they differ in some implementation details (attributes, generics), both implement basically the same modern object-pascal language.

So to sum up: object pascal is in the Top Ten language, above Ruby !

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