Microsoft updated its programming languages strategy, confirming that Visual Basic will remain a going concern even though it's still relegated to second-rate status when compared to C# and F#. The ...

Rounding out the top 20 are: Swift, Go, R, Classic Visual Basic, MATLAB, Ruby, Delphi, Rust, Perl, and Scratch. Tiobe says its ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers globally ...

The language was developed at Dartmouth specifically so people could write simple programs without much training. However, Basic found roots in small computers and grew to where it is today ...