I asked ChatGPT -- Please estimate the popularity of these languages, relative to the most popular one (that gets 100%). Base your answer on community activity on different platforms (stackoverflow, reddit, hacker news, dev.to, github) and the number of books available and sold: COBOL, Perl, PHP, BASIC, TCL, ColdFusion.
Estimated popularity:
PHP: 100% (reference)
Perl: 30%
COBOL: 25%
BASIC: 10%
TCL: 8%
ColdFusion: 5%
(I consider all of these dead, or, "in maintenance mode")
Why php though? Php is as old as java and very popular and constantly updated.