GVU's Fifth WWW User Survey Author Graphs

Most Used Language for CGI Scripting

Notes:

This question has changed slightly since the fourth survey, so a direct comparison is not possible.

Almost half of the authors who responded have not done any CGI programming. For those who have, the language of choice is PERL (21.7%). The next most common are apple script (7.8%) and "other" (4.4%).
Users in Europe were more likely to have done CGI programming, which follows from the fact that they also tend to have more programming experience. (See: Years Programming.)

Table of Data for All Categories

language All USA Europe

apple 251
7.80%
165
9.60%
25
7.60%

c 126
3.92%
60
3.49%
22
6.69%

c++ 164
5.10%
71
4.13%
20
6.08%

java 58
1.80%
23
1.34%
6
1.82%

none 1585
49.25%
854
49.68%
135
41.03%

ole 5
0.16%
1
0.06%

0.00%

other 142
4.41%
64
3.72%
10
3.04%

perl 697
21.66%
400
23.27%
86
26.14%

python 10
0.31%
5
0.29%
2
0.61%

shell 99
3.08%
44
2.56%
20
6.08%

visual 81
2.52%
32
1.86%
3
0.91%

For more information or to submit comments:
send e-mail to www-survey@cc.gatech.edu.
GVU's WWW Surveying Team
Graphics, Visualization, & Usability Center
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280