PHP awarded programming language of 2004

Announced to a packed hall of programmers, stunned silence then loud “Woots” followed the announcment of PHP as programming language of the year 2004.

PHP has earned the title “Programming Language of the Year 2004″ with a positive delta of more than 3 percent within 1 year. The launch of PHP version 5 is generally regarded as a further step to maturity. It is expected that PHP will be capable to maintain its top 4 position for a long time. Surprisingly, C is runner up thanks to the addition of MSN.com as an extra data provider. Delphi and Python are third and fourth best respectively.

Think I’ll leave quickly here, so you can draw your own conclusions.

Written By:

Harry Fuecks

Harry has been working in corporate IT since 1994, with everything from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. Outside of office hours he runs phpPatterns: a site dedicated to software design with PHP that aims to raise standards of PHP development. He also maintains Dynamically Typed: SitePoint's PHP blog.

{ 5 comments }

harshy January 6, 2005 at 10:12 am: cool, well I’ve got the Sitepoint book, will be further motivation for me to finally get PHP into my head!
Mike Borozdin January 6, 2005 at 9:39 am: Coooool!!!!!!!
sajannair January 6, 2005 at 4:30 am: It really feels great, to hear this. As a php programmer you wont get a better encouragement to work more on php.
mmj January 5, 2005 at 10:06 pm: You must have had some insider info ;)
iansym January 5, 2005 at 9:22 pm: - In January 2005 PHP will win an award as “Programming Language of the Year, 2004″
You got one right :)