A la cabeza se mantiene Java, seguido de cerca por el tan conocido lenguaje C, y siendo C++ el tercer lugar. Al parecer una buena opción para empezar puede ser Java .

Position Sep 2008	Position Sep 2007	Delta in Position	Programming Language	Ratings Sep 2008	Delta Sep 2007	Status
1	1		Java	20.715%	-0.99%	A
2	2		C	15.379%	+0.47%	A
3	5		C++	10.716%	+0.78%	A
4	3		(Visual) Basic	10.490%	-0.26%	A
5	4		PHP	9.243%	-0.96%	A
6	8		Python	5.012%	+1.99%	A
7	6		Perl	4.841%	-0.58%	A
8	7		C#	4.334%	+0.75%	A
9	9		JavaScript	3.130%	+0.41%	A
10	14		Delphi	3.055%	+1.83%	A
11	10		Ruby	2.762%	+0.70%	A
12	13		D	1.265%	-0.11%	A
13	11		PL/SQL	0.700%	-1.16%	A–
14	12		SAS	0.640%	-0.76%	B
15	23		ActionScript	0.472%	+0.07%	B
16	16		Lisp/Scheme	0.419%	-0.21%	B
17	18		Lua	0.415%	-0.16%	B
18	22		Pascal	0.400%	-0.03%	B
19	-		PowerShell	0.384%	0.00%	B
20	17		COBOL	0.360%	-0.27%	B

Via: Mind Tree