# A video showing "Most Popular Programming Languages 1965 - 2019"

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**Created:** [December 21, 2022, 8:42pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/a-video-showing-most-popular-programming-languages-1965-2019/4932 "2022-12-21T20:42:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![vmagnin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/vmagnin/32/28_2.png) [@vmagnin](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/vmagnin)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 8:42pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/a-video-showing-most-popular-programming-languages-1965-2019/4932/1 "2022-12-21T20:42:48Z")

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In that video, Fortran is losing its first place to the benefit of Pascal in 1980. Between 1995 and 1998, it quickly goes down the Top 10 and disappears, as new languages like Java, Javascript, Visual Basic, Delphi, Perl, are rising.

[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/fortran_lang/original/2X/3/328e3d392af3ba13be7d203822acd13e70e303ee.jpeg "Most Popular Programming Languages 1965 - 2019") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og847HVwRSI)

(About the data used for that video, see the explanations of the author)