Computer Language Popularity Trend

On 26 Sep 2006 20:05:00 -0700, I waved a wand and this message
magically appears in front of [email protected]:

This page gives a visual report of computer languages’s popularity, as
indicated by their traffic level in newsgroups. This is not a
comprehensive or fair survey, but does give some indications of
popularity trends.

Folks, just kf him and have done with it.

http://www.munted.org.uk

You’ve been eating the cat food again, haven’t you?

quoth the Greg D.:

On 9/29/06, Ancient_Hacker [email protected] wrote:

Or one might deduce that the higher the curve, the more likely the
languge really sucks, and more people need lots of help and discussion
of really basic things.

Hard to say… for example php-general is just as high traffic as
ruby-talk.

Really?

I subscribe to the PHP, Ruby, and Python general lists. I also have my
mail
client automatically delete messages after 60 days. A side-effect is
that
this gives me a sort of 60 day moving average of list volume. Current
figures
are:

Python: 10208
Ruby: 11932
PHP: 2476

-d

Christopher Benson-Manica wrote:

In comp.lang.c jmcgill [email protected] wrote:

It had not occurred to me that it was a nuisance. I thought poor soul
was genuinely trying to do an empirical study based on usenet volume.

Only because (I presume) you haven’t seen Xah Lee’s drivel posted
previously. The charm wears thin rather quickly.

Boy, I never knew he posted his STUFF in the PHP newsgroups. He has a
bad reputation in the Java newsgroups because of his, what would you
call it, megalomaniacal view… Guess he likes to be ignored in more than
one language group.

–
Thanks in Advance…
IchBin, Pocono Lake, Pa, USA http://weconsultants.phpnet.us

‘If there is one, Knowledge is the “Fountain of Youth”’
-William E. Taylor, Regular Guy (1952-)

darren kirby [email protected] writes:

Python: 10208
Ruby: 11932
PHP: 2476

I guess PHP people are more likely to use some icky forum than
mailing lists?

Christian N. wrote:

Python: 10208
Ruby: 11932
PHP: 2476

I guess PHP people are more likely to use some icky forum than
mailing lists?

Like phpBB?

Ancient_Hacker wrote:

Or one might deduce that the higher the curve, the more likely the
languge really sucks, and more people need lots of help and discussion
of really basic things.

Or one might deduce that these ad-hoc stillborn carcasses of attempts at
statistical research are completely worthless especially if you have to
run around your own head in tight little circles to draw conclusions of
dubious relevance from them.

Last time I checked, “deduction” wasn’t defined as “random guess that
none of the input really proves since it’s unrelated”

David V.

Christian N. wrote:

I guess PHP people are more likely to use some icky forum than
mailing lists?

And the rather special abomination, manuals with comments. There’s
something strangely satisfactory in seeing anonymous strangers correct a
library’s author on example code using it.

(Just HOW hard can it be to try and -run- your own code examples again?)

Oh, and the “clever tricks” kids come up with on those crack me up some
times too.

David V.

David V. [email protected] writes:

Christian N. wrote:

I guess PHP people are more likely to use some icky forum than
mailing lists?

And the rather special abomination, manuals with comments.
…

At least they have manuals.