Great info including a breakdown of current language counts here:

http://blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2015/07/infographics-cpp-facts-before-clion/

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/5114/did-cobol-have-250-billion-lines-of-code-and-1-million-programmers-as-late-as-2

If you want to talk pure lines of code (for total impact)..in 2001 it looked like this:

• Cobol: 30 percent (225 billion LOC)
• C/C++: 20 percent (180 billion LOC)
• Assembler: 10 percent (140 to 220 billion LOC)
• less common languages: 40 percent (280 billion LOC)

Alas they don't really, which is a shame.

Sorry for not posting direct link. I was going to but I figured something explaining what it was would be more useful to people so they had any idea what the heck they were looking at. Posting a link to a "click to the full story" is all my bad though, didn't notice that, sorry :(

My pleasure. I highly recommend playing it. It will help you understand the underpinnings of a lot of what you are learning in language courses. Always understand the lower levels of the device you are working on if you ever want to get any performance out of it or be able to debug very nasty bugs on it.

I found this to be a really good informative article talking about how to move away from loops and more towards collection manipulation.