Relative Popularity of Lisp Dialects and Some Trends, According to Google Kazimir Majorinc kazimir at chem pmf hr Following graphs show relative popularity of some Lisp dialects, according to Google, on the base of counting Google searches. I had to play for some time to find suitable graphs; some of the programming languages have names related to other notions as well - and it includes generic Lisp and Scheme, but also popular Java, while C++ contains unacceptable characters. Cobol and Fortran are useful, because C# alone is so popular than it cannot be compared directly with any Lisp dialect. Also, Cobol and Fortran are about as old as Lisp . Although all these programming languages -- except Clojure and perhaps Picolisp -- appear to lose popularity, note that popularity is relative to the total number of Google searches, so graph is influenced by increasing ratio of non-programmers vs. programmers among Google users. However, the comparison between different programming languages and dialects should be still valid. These graphs should be "alive" when you click; it doesn't always work, but usually it does. Make your own conclusions! If you like this post, maybe you'll like  Another difference between C++ and C#  or  Why you do not use Lisp - the results of the poll .

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