Over the past few months, we've taken a comprehensive deep dive into the popularity of programming ... see how the three sites compare language popularity, I have more charts.

As ZDNet noted when Ritchie died in in 2011, C is the "heart of programming … as the quintessential expression of coding elegance, power, simplicity and portability." It's also a language that ...

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