… except there is another measure of programming language popularity out there. I’m referring to GitHub’s annual reports of the fifteen most popular programming languages on its platform.

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A high-level programming language that is interpreted (translated on the fly) rather than compiled ahead of time. A scripting language may be a general-purpose programming language or it may be ...

I started off programming in QBASIC (I know it can be compiled, but I'll always think of it as interpreted), and I now use plenty of php, but what else is out there?

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