>>57
The post you're replying to is over two years old.
It's a popular myth that COBOL is or was the most popular language used for decades after most programmers had even heard of it. I don't know where it came from, but people like to repeat unlikely stories because it makes them feel clever. Even if it had been true before Y2K, which is extremely unlikely, there's no way it would still have been the case afterwards.
I don't know where he got his Java claim, though, other than his ass.
I
do know where you got your C claim: the TIOBE index, which is utter bullshit. You don't even have to look at their methodology to realise this, though doing so will confirm it. It's an incredibly poor reflection of the actual popularity of languages, no matter how you'd like to define ``popularity''.
The only real answer is that there isn't enough data to say which language is the most popular.