Here are the top 100 programming languages in the PLDB. You can also view all the languages in the PLDB. Rankings are generated by this code.
| title | appeared | type | rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Java | 1995 | pl | 1 |
| JavaScript | 1995 | pl | 2 |
| C | 1972 | pl | 3 |
| Python | 1991 | pl | 4 |
| HTML | 1991 | textMarkup | 5 |
| SQL | 1974 | queryLanguage | 6 |
| PHP | 1995 | pl | 7 |
| C++ | 1985 | pl | 8 |
| Ruby | 1995 | pl | 9 |
| XML | 1996 | metaLanguage | 10 |
| R | 1993 | pl | 11 |
| Perl | 1987 | pl | 12 |
| Go | 2009 | pl | 13 |
| C# | 2000 | pl | 14 |
| MATLAB | 1984 | pl | 15 |
| Scala | 2004 | pl | 16 |
| MySQL | 1995 | queryLanguage | 17 |
| JSON | 2001 | metaLanguage | 18 |
| Swift | 2014 | pl | 19 |
| Haskell | 1990 | pl | 20 |
| Fortran | 1957 | pl | 21 |
| Lua | 1993 | pl | 22 |
| Rust | 2010 | pl | 23 |
| CSS | 1996 | stylesheetLanguage | 24 |
| COBOL | 1959 | pl | 25 |
| Objective-C | 1984 | pl | 26 |
| SAS | 1976 | pl | 27 |
| Scheme | 1970 | pl | 28 |
| Clojure | 2007 | pl | 29 |
| Lisp | 1958 | pl | 30 |
| PostgreSQL | 1986 | queryLanguage | 31 |
| TypeScript | 2012 | pl | 32 |
| Erlang | 1986 | pl | 33 |
| Prolog | 1972 | pl | 34 |
| Mathematica | 1988 | pl | 35 |
| Visual Basic | 1991 | pl | 36 |
| ARM | 1985 | assembly | 37 |
| Kotlin | 2011 | pl | 38 |
| Elixir | 2011 | pl | 39 |
| Julia | 2012 | pl | 40 |
| Pascal | 1970 | pl | 41 |
| ISBN | 1970 | schema | 42 |
| PowerShell | 2006 | pl | 43 |
| Tcl | 1988 | pl | 44 |
| Ada | 1980 | pl | 45 |
| OCaml | 1996 | pl | 46 |
| Groovy | 2003 | pl | 47 |
| Assembly language | 1960 | assembly | 48 |
| D | 2001 | pl | 49 |
| Smalltalk | 1972 | pl | 50 |
| CoffeeScript | 2009 | pl | 51 |
| Dart | 2011 | pl | 52 |
| BASIC | 1964 | pl | 53 |
| Common Lisp | 1984 | pl | 54 |
| F# | 2005 | pl | 55 |
| Regular Expressions | 1951 | queryLanguage | 56 |
| Bash | 1989 | pl | 57 |
| Racket | 1994 | pl | 58 |
| Nim | 2008 | pl | 59 |
| APL | 1964 | pl | 60 |
| Forth | 1970 | pl | 61 |
| Crystal | 2014 | pl | 62 |
| Maple | 1982 | pl | 63 |
| HTTP | 1989 | protocol | 64 |
| Delphi | 1995 | pl | 65 |
| awk | 1977 | pl | 66 |
| Chapel | 2004 | pl | 67 |
| Elm | 2012 | pl | 68 |
| Solidity | 2014 | pl | 69 |
| Verilog | 1984 | hardwareDescriptionLanguage | 70 |
| PostScript | 1982 | textMarkup | 71 |
| Haxe | 2005 | pl | 72 |
| Eiffel | 1986 | pl | 73 |
| DOI | 2000 | schema | 74 |
| PowerPC | 1992 | isa | 75 |
| LLVM IR | 2003 | ir | 76 |
| Reason | 2016 | pl | 77 |
| FTP | 1971 | protocol | 78 |
| GNU Octave | 1988 | pl | 79 |
| Tex | 1978 | pl | 80 |
| X86 | 1978 | isa | 81 |
| Node.js | 2009 | pl | 82 |
| LaTeX | 1985 | textMarkup | 83 |
| Emacs Lisp | 1985 | pl | 84 |
| LabVIEW G | 1986 | pl | 85 |
| CUDA | 2007 | pl | 86 |
| Standard ML | 1990 | pl | 87 |
| TLS | 1999 | protocol | 88 |
| YAML | 2001 | metaLanguage | 89 |
| VHDL | 1983 | hardwareDescriptionLanguage | 90 |
| PureScript | 2013 | pl | 91 |
| Visual Basic .NET | 2001 | pl | 92 |
| Rexx | 1979 | pl | 93 |
| Modula-2 | 1978 | pl | 94 |
| UML | 1996 | xmlFormat | 95 |
| fish | 2005 | pl | 96 |
| TCP | 1974 | protocol | 97 |
| MUMPS | 1966 | pl | 98 |
| SMTP | 1982 | protocol | 99 |
| Arduino | 2005 | pl | 100 |