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Is your language hot or not?

If one would measure popularity by number of hits on Google, these are the five most popular computer languages:

PHP
Java
C
Flash
Perl

A graph of Google hits, using the query +lang +programming, for some of the most common languages follows. NOTE 1: please inform me if your favorite language is omitted. NOTE 2: I did not include the language […]

AJAX using one language

AJAX is a bunch of cryptic JavaScript snippets on the client side together with some advanced web services, written in another, and more powerful, language. Right? Not necessarily. I here give a brief comparison of three ways to create AJAX applications with only one language, running on both client and server.
The three unilinguistic approaches to [...]