According to the Tiobe Programming Community Index, Java is the top/dominant programming language (Aug 2008):
Tiobe Programming Community Index, August 2008 (Credit: Tiobe)
The same reports indicates that COBOL scores a new all time low (at position 19), yet it still is above Objective-C (at position 42)!
Top 10 programming languages:
1. Java
2. C
3. (Visual) Basic
4. C++
5. PHP
6. Python
7. Perl
8. C#
9. Ruby
10. JavaScript
:
19. COBOL
:
23. Fortran
:
37. Smalltalk
:
42. Objective-C
:
50. Caml
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[Via c/net Java still top programming language)