2008年05月世界编程语言排行榜
注：TIOBE世界编程语言排行榜展现了编程语言的流行趋势。每个月，都有最新的数据被更新。这份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。请注意这个排行榜只是反映了某个编程语言的热门程度,这并不代表它是一个最好的编程语言或是可以写出某些令人称赞的好程序。
| Position May 2008 | Position May 2007 | Delta in Position | Programming Language | Ratings May 2008 | Delta May 2007 | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |  | Java | 20.176% | +1.04% | A |
| 2 | 2 | | C | 15.292% | +0.14% | A |
| 3 | 5 |  | (Visual) Basic | 10.782% | +2.35% | A |
| 4 | 4 | | PHP | 10.637% | +1.90% | A |
| 5 | 3 |  | C++ | 10.484% | +0.37% | A |
| 6 | 6 | | Perl | 5.869% | -0.28% | A |
| 7 | 7 | | Python | 4.613% | +0.83% | A |
| 8 | 8 | | C# | 3.963% | +0.31% | A |
| 9 | 10 | | Ruby | 2.851% | +0.22% | A |
| 10 | 11 | | Delphi | 2.641% | +0.51% | A |
| 11 | 9 | | JavaScript | 2.411% | -0.66% | A |
| 12 | 14 | | D | 1.314% | -0.03% | A |
| 13 | 12 | | SAS | 0.738% | -1.34% | A- |
| 14 | 13 | | PL/SQL | 0.625% | -1.35% | B |
| 15 | 22 | | Pascal | 0.498% | -0.05% | B |
| 16 | 16 | | Lisp/Scheme | 0.449% | -0.25% | B |
| 17 | 17 | | Ada | 0.431% | -0.25% | B |
| 18 | 20 | | COBOL | 0.411% | -0.22% | B |
| 19 | 23 | | Lua | 0.393% | -0.12% | B |
| 20 | 18 | | FoxPro/xBase | 0.385% | -0.25% | B |