TIOBE编程语言9月份榜单发布，Ruby下降一位排名第十一，Python继续上升，到第六位，大有赶超PHP。
TIOBE 世界编程语言排行榜在一定程度上体现了编程语言在当前的流行趋势。这个排行榜每个月更新一次，排行榜的数据取样来源于互联网上富有经验的程序员、商业应用、著名的搜索引擎（诸如谷歌、 MSN 、雅虎）的关键字排名、 Alexa 上的排名等。
| Position Sep 2008 | Position Sep 2007 | Delta in Position | Programming Language | Ratings Sep 2008 | Delta Sep 2007 | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |  | Java | 20.715% | -0.99% | A |
| 2 | 2 | | C | 15.379% | +0.47% | A |
| 3 | 5 |  | C++ | 10.716% | +0.78% | A |
| 4 | 3 |  | (Visual) Basic | 10.490% | -0.26% | A |
| 5 | 4 | | PHP | 9.243% | -0.96% | A |
| 6 | 8 | | Python | 5.012% | +1.99% | A |
| 7 | 6 | | Perl | 4.841% | -0.58% | A |
| 8 | 7 | | C# | 4.334% | +0.75% | A |
| 9 | 9 | | JavaScript | 3.130% | +0.41% | A |
| 10 | 14 | | Delphi | 3.055% | +1.83% | A |
| 11 | 10 | | Ruby | 2.762% | +0.70% | A |
| 12 | 13 | | D | 1.265% | -0.11% | A |
| 13 | 11 | | PL/SQL | 0.700% | -1.16% | A-- |
| 14 | 12 | | SAS | 0.640% | -0.76% | B |
| 15 | 23 | | ActionScript | 0.472% | +0.07% | B |
| 16 | 16 | | Lisp/Scheme | 0.419% | -0.21% | B |
| 17 | 18 | | Lua | 0.415% | -0.16% | B |
| 18 | 22 | | Pascal | 0.400% | -0.03% | B |
| 19 | - | | PowerShell | 0.384% | 0.00% | B |
| 20 | 17 | | COBOL | 0.360% | -0.27% | B |
排行长期趋势：
21到50位的排行是：
| Position | Programming Language | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| 21 | Logo | 0.357% |
| 22 | Ada | 0.349% |
| 23 | Fortran | 0.303% |
| 24 | ABAP | 0.280% |
| 25 | MATLAB | 0.255% |
| 26 | RPG (OS/400) | 0.247% |
| 27 | FoxPro/xBase | 0.217% |
| 28 | Prolog | 0.210% |
| 29 | Transact-SQL | 0.204% |
| 30 | Awk | 0.194% |
| 31 | LabVIEW | 0.170% |
| 32 | PL/I | 0.167% |
| 33 | DC | 0.165% |
| 34 | Euphoria | 0.148% |
| 35 | Haskell | 0.124% |
| 36 | Smalltalk | 0.123% |
| 37 | Tcl/Tk | 0.122% |
| 38 | REXX | 0.116% |
| 39 | Groovy | 0.115% |
| 40 | Bourne shell | 0.113% |
| 41 | ML | 0.112% |
| 42 | Forth | 0.107% |
| 43 | Objective-C | 0.105% |
| 44 | Erlang | 0.105% |
| 45 | CL (OS/400) | 0.096% |
| 46 | Alice | 0.092% |
| 47 | Scala | 0.090% |
| 48 | Natural | 0.080% |
| 49 | Caml | 0.076% |
| 50 | APL | 0.072% |
