The C language has dropped to fourth place in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity, its lowest position in the monthly index ever. The index was begun in 2001.

C++ overtook C in the top three of the TIOBE Programming Language Community Index this month, a significant shakeup following gradual growth of C++ and gradual decline of C over the last year.

TrapC is an extension of the C programming language that removes the keywords goto and union, adds the keywords trap and alias, and adopts a few features from C++ that improve safety such as ...