SQL had a somewhat unusual journey in the TIOBE Index. In 2004, due to debates about whether SQL counted as a programming language at all, Jansen removed it from the index.

From a more low-level programming perspective as inspired by C code and kin, the use of directly shared resources makes more sense, and can be argued to have performance benefits.

Developers often dispute the merits of SQL as a legitimate programming language, but this misses the point. SQL is a powerful 4GL for accessing data.

IEEE Spectrum's top programming languages for 2022 are slightly different to Tiobe's, but Python is also the top language. It's followed by C, C++, C#, Java, SQL, JavaScript, R, HTML, TypeScript.

In this article, we discuss the differences between Low-level and High-level Programming languages, with examples, for anyone who wants to learn dig into IT.