http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm
PHP荣膺为“2004年度编程语言”，因为在过去的1年里上升了3个百分点以上。PHP 5的发布使得它更加成熟。有迹象显示，PHP会在长时间内保持前4名的位置。。
Bruce Eckel在blog上阐述了为什么Java在这一年中下降这么多：
http://onthethought.blogspot.com/2004/12/java-slipping.html。最有趣的是，Benjamin Ferrari说可能是因为Java不再被认为是“language for everything”。
Position (Position) Programming Language Ratings (Ratings) Status
1 C 20.709% +2.11% A
2 Java 17.478% -6.09% A
3 C++ 11.927% -4.16% A
4 PHP 9.482% +3.17% A
5 (Visual) Basic 7.928% -0.62% A
6 Perl 7.461% -2.14% A
7 SQL 3.314% +0.22% A
8 Python 2.842% +1.72% A
9 Delphi/Kylix 2.572% +1.77% A
10 C# 2.203% +0.40% A
11 JavaScript 1.703% -0.04% A
12 SAS 1.412% +0.63% A
13 COBOL 1.068% +0.31% A
14 ABAP 0.736% +0.50% A-
15 IDL 0.726% +0.31% A-
16 Pascal 0.641% +0.04% B
17 Lisp 0.618% +0.12% B
18 Fortran 0.523% -0.02% B
19 Ada 0.493% -0.04% B
20 RPG 0.429% +0.09% B
20之后的：－－－－
Position Programming Language Ratings
21 MATLAB 0.424%
22 Felix 0.422%
23 VB.NET 0.368%
24 Prolog 0.363%
25 Postscript 0.345%
26 Scheme 0.323%
27 ColdFusion 0.271%
28 Awk 0.259%
29 Ruby 0.241%
30 REXX 0.207%
31 Logo 0.194%
32 Forth 0.186%
33 ActionScript 0.180%
34 LabView 0.179%
35 S-Lang 0.173%
36 Tcl/Tk 0.167%
37 Icon 0.159%
38 Bash 0.158%
39 PL/1 0.121%
40 Clipper 0.105%
41 Smalltalk 0.102%
42 Natural 0.100%
43 VHDL 0.094%
44 Objective-C 0.092%
45 VBScript 0.091%
46 ML 0.090%
47 Lingo 0.087%
48 Csh 0.083%
49 Groovy 0.080%
50 Dylan 0.073%
