For the second year running Python has been selected as the Language of the Year by Linux users:
Linux Users' Programming Languages of the Year 2008
PHP 115 13.36%
Perl 72 8.36%
Python 226 26.25%
Ruby 46 5.34%
C 114 13.24%
C++ 129 14.98%
Java 106 12.31%
Lisp 9 1.05%
Erlang 4 0.46%
Smalltalk 1 0.12%
Haskell 11 1.28%
C# 19 2.21%
Lua 4 0.46%
COBOL 3 0.35%
Scheme 2 0.23%
OCaml 0 0%
Total voters: 8611 (all Linux users)