Google Code Jam 2011 Language Usage

[Peter Alexander]

The Google Code Jam is a programming competition where you have to solve 
algorithmic problems using whatever programming language you like.

The stats of what programming languages were used in the first round 
were collected:

http://www.go-hero.net/jam/11/languages

Some select figures for languages used to solve the first question:

C++	5032
Java	2321
C#	628	
C	532
Haskell	100
Clojure	13
GO	13
D	5
Scheme	5

(In previous 3 years, D had between 2-4 entries for the first question, 
so not much change, despite total contestant counts increasing quite 
dramatically)

Generally, I believe people tend to use the language they are most 
familiar with, and for people that know more than one language they will 
choose the one that is most expressive. Stability of implementations 
could also be an issue.

Obviously you can't draw too many conclusions from this alone, but more 
data is always better. Take what you will from it.