Java on the Decline? Think Again

It seems that everywhere I look people are taking pot shots at Java, declaring it passe and acting like it's on it's death bed. What a nice thing it is to see unbiased measurement of language popularity from Tiobe. That link is to the January 2008 Programming Community Index.
Here's what their unbiased measurements actually show:

Java is the most popular language, capturing 20.8% of the popularity
That lead increased over second place C (now at 13.9%) by 3.6% over a year ago
Java's absolute popularity increased from a year ago by 1.7%
Ruby's popularity is 2.3% ranking it 11th
Python was the biggest gainer over the last year, growing 2.0%, giving it 6th place
Python overtook long time rival Perl for the first time this year
Visual Basic (now 3rd) was the second biggest gainer, Java was 3rd
Ruby's popularity actually fell 0.17% over the last year
Perl, ranking 7th, is still more than twice as popular that Ruby
C lost the most ground at -1.89%
C++ lost the second most ground at -1.7%
C++ fell to 5th, as it was overtaken by both Visual Basic and PHP
PHP gained 1.25% in popularity over the year
Java is more popular than VB and C# combined (aka .net) which total 15.7%
Delphi at 3.3% surged ahead of both Javascript and Ruby.
Lua ranks 16th, up from 46th
Groovy ranks 31st

Java真的在衰落吗？再好好看看

好像到处可以听到人们讨论的热点是Java，议论它正走在死亡的路上。最近看到一篇关于语言流行度无偏见评测的文章，本文是对客观实际评测的显示：

Java是最流行的语言，受欢迎度为20.8％；

占据第二位的是去年涨幅比Java少3.6％的C语言，现占13.9％；

Java的绝对人气比去年上升1.7％；

Ruby的受欢迎度是2.3％，排名11；

Python是去年增幅最大的，增长2.0％，居第六位；

Python今年第一次超过了排在前面很长时间的对手Perl；

Visual Basic（现在是第三代）在增幅上排第二位，Java排第三位；

Ruby的人气和去年相比下降了0.17％；

Perl，现排第七位，受欢迎度仍然是Ruby的一倍多；

C语言以1.89％跌落谷底；

C＋＋以1.7％的幅度在下降幅度中排第二位；

C＋＋下滑至第五位，因为它以前排在Visual Basic和PHP之前；

PHP比去年增长了1.25％；

Java比VB和C＃结合的AKA.NET更受欢迎，尽管AKA.NET占15.7％；

Delphi以3.3％的迅猛增长超过Javascript和Ruby；

Lua从先前46名升至第十六位；

Groovy排名31；

如果这些数字让你感到吃惊，或许你在阅读Blogs时会持更多的怀疑态度。