Done on August 27, 2000

Searching for keywords in google.com returns the approximate numbers of pages found on the keywords.  To gauge interests and sentiment for Java, for example, I search for "Java", "Java rules" (positive sentiment) and "Java sucks" (negative sentiment).

Use it as a rough guage of interests on these languages in the Web.  Take this with a grain of salt.

At UHCL, there are courses covering or using all languages/technologies listed below except Python, TCL, COBOL and Smalltalk.  Languages in purple are covered in my course CSCI 4230 Internet Application Development.  PHP is covered in my course CSCI 5633 Applied Database Development.
 

Language	Number of Hits	# of "rules"	# of "sucks"	Rules/Sucks
HTML	272,000,000 (+)	34,600 (*)	764	N/A
ASP	18,000,000 (+)	681 (*)	102	6.8
Java	10,300,000	1,490	822	1.8
Servlet	5,120,000	52	0	N/A
Perl	4,830,000	1,630	133	12.3
SQL	2,980,000	417	22	19.0
C++	2,360,000	1,580	260	6.1
JavaScript	2,320,000	142	54	2.6
XML	2,100,000	3,110	9	N/A
PHP	2,070,000	68	28	2.4
Ada	1,430,000 (+)	819	90	9.1
JSP	1,390,000	4	13	0.31
Pascal	1,090,000	43	13	3.3
Lisp	1,020,000	53	20	2.7
TCL	998,000	119	27	4.4
CSS	976,000	1,460 (*)	6	NA
FORTRAN	850,000	459	13	35.3
Python	830,000	335	19	17.6
Visual Basic	455,000	22	25	0.88
Prolog	353,000	551 (*)	3	N/A
COBOL	314,000	124	31	4.0
XSL	252,000	170	13	N/A
SmallTalk	251,000	39	2	19.5
VBScript	187,000	5	79	0.06
Cold Fusion	153,000	3	14	0.21
JScript	71,200	0	0	N/A

(*)    HTML, XML, XSL, CSS and Prolog rules usually are not compliments.  For example, Prolog programs are composed of rules, so "Prolog rules" may simply refer to rules of Prolog.

(+)    Potentially significantly exaggerated.

Note that C or C# cannot be searched in Google.com as it returns too much noise.