Svonkie writes "C overwhelmingly proved to be the most popular systems analysis articulation for thousands of new open-source projects in 2008, reports The list (UK). according to rule to license tracker Black Duck Software, which monitors 180,000 projects on nearly 4,000 sites, almost half — 47 per cent — of new projects last year used C. 17,000 new open-source projects were created in total. Next in renown after C came Java, with 28 per cent. In scripting, came out on top with 20 per cent, followed by Perl with 18 per cent. PHP attracted just 11 per cent, and Ruby six per cent. The numbers are a surprise, as open-source PHP has proved popular as a web-site progress language, while Ruby's been a hot topic for many."

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