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In November I ran a few searches in my LinkedIn account to see how many times each major programming language comes up. I posted the results in my use.perl.org journal

In response to a journalist asking me today how important Perl is for CTOs I decided to run the queries again adding all the other languages that show up on the latest TIOBE Index.

So here are the results of searching in my LinkedIn account for the particular strings once with Location "Anywhere" and once with "Located in or near Israel" 

                    Israel    World wide
    C(1)              907        38,314
    Java              424        19,522
    SQL               275        14,967
    Basic             119         9,703
    Perl              152         6,025
    JavaScript         97         5,943
    PHP                55         5,338
    Visual Basic       77         4,219
    SAS                 9         3,340
    Pascal             44         2,741
    PL/SQL             43         2,119
    VB.NET             66         2,022
    COBOL              28         1,977
    Delphi             50         1,969
    Python             27         1,285
    VBScript           23         1,063
    Fortran            19         1,055
    MATLAB             33           869
    Ada                25           741
    ABAP                5           598
    LISP                8           549
    "Java Script"      21           346
    IDL                 0           134

    as reference
    linux               291      11,923
    My Network       25,114   1,801,195
    Monastery             0          13

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(1) Searching for C, C++ or C# brings the same results.

Update: See further explanations: Re^2: Business readiness of programming languages

In reply to Business readiness of programming languages by szabgab

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