Objective-C wins the TIOBE Programming Language Award of 2011!

According to TIOBE Programming Community Index for January 2012, Objective-C wins the TIOBE Programming Language Award of 2011!

This award is given to the programming language that gained most market share in 2011. The market share of Objective-C is 3.91% higher than it was in January 2011. The major cause of this is the continuing success of the iPhone and the iPad, which both are mainly implemented in Objective-C.

The entire top 20 included the following:

1 Java
2 C
3 C#
4 C++
5 Objective-C
6 PHP
7 (Visual) Basic
8 Python
9 Perl
10 JavaScript
11 Delphi/Object Pascal
12 Ruby
13 Lisp
14 Pascal
15 Transact-SQL
16 PL/SQL
17 Ada
18 Logo
19 R
20 Lua

Source: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html