Programming languages: Python just took a big jump forward Python overtakes Java and C for the first time in 20 years of a key language popularity index.

Only twice in TIOBE Programming Index history has a language commanded such a high percentage of developers’ interest.

In a Q&A, Python programming language creator Guido van Rossum said it was "almost taboo to talk about a Python 4 in a serious sense" following the troubled migration from Python 2.0 to Python 3.0.