【IT168技术新闻】TIOBE编程社区的编程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，课程设置和第三方厂商. 同时也参考来自google,msn,yahoo等搜索引擎计算得出的结果。当然，观察可以发现，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。
| Position July 2006 | Position July 2005 | Delta in Position | Programming Language | Ratings July 2006 | Delta July 2005 | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 |  |
Java | 21.853% | +2.19% | A |
| 2 | 1 | |
C | 17.829% | -2.02% | A |
| 3 | 6 | |
(Visual) Basic | 10.689% | +4.62% | A |
| 4 | 4 | |
PHP | 10.350% | +1.18% | A |
| 5 | 3 | |
C++ | 9.779% | -1.28% | A |
| 6 | 5 | |
Perl | 5.626% | -2.20% | A |
| 7 | 7 | |
C# | 3.401% | +0.26% | A |
| 8 | 8 | |
Python | 3.017% | +0.49% | A |
| 9 | 9 | |
JavaScript | 2.108% | +0.33% | A |
| 10 | 10 | |
Delphi | 2.037% | +0.30% | A |
| 11 | 12 | |
SAS | 1.746% | +0.54% | A |
| 12 | 13 | |
PL/SQL | 0.956% | -0.09% | A |
| 13 | 35 | 22 * |
Visual FoxPro | 0.868% | +0.60% | A |
| 14 | 18 | |
Ada | 0.548% | -0.20% | B |
| 15 | 15 | |
Lisp/Scheme | 0.515% | -0.46% | B |
| 16 | 21 | |
Pascal | 0.511% | -0.04% | B |
| 17 | 30 | 13 * |
Ruby | 0.506% | +0.20% | B |
| 18 | 33 | 15 * |
ActionScript | 0.484% | +0.20% | B |
| 19 | 16 | |
VB.NET | 0.477% | -0.48% | B |
| 20 | 11 | 9 * |
COBOL | 0.464% | -0.93% | B |
