# YAML (Yet Another Meaningless Languagepopularitystatisticals **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [March 21, 2007, 1:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yaml-yet-another-meaningless-languagepopularitystatisticals/89539 "2007-03-21T01:47:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MSEdward\_SEdS\_Bora](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@MSEdward\_SEdS\_Bora](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/MSEdward_SEdS_Bora)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 1:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yaml-yet-another-meaningless-languagepopularitystatisticals/89539/1 "2007-03-21T01:47:11Z")
I couldn’t resist … anyhow one of my fellow Forth freaks does this every year. Yes, Ruby is ahead of Forth. But Forth is ahead of Haskell and Erlang. 🙂 [http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/comp.lang-statistics/](http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/comp.lang-statistics/) – M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P) [http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/](http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/) If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given rabbits fire. ---
**Author:** ![MSEdward\_SEdS\_Bora](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@MSEdward\_SEdS\_Bora](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/MSEdward_SEdS_Bora)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 2:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yaml-yet-another-meaningless-languagepopularitystatisticals/89539/2 "2007-03-21T14:18:25Z")
> I couldn’t resist … anyhow one of my fellow Forth freaks does this > every year. Yes, Ruby is ahead of Forth. But Forth is ahead of Haskell > and Erlang. 🙂 > > [Programming language popularity](http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/comp.lang-statistics/) That’s really interesting 🙂 Not so much from a relative point of view (for me), but more from seeing the different interest profiles of languages, and how their popularity waxes and wanes. Would be nice to see them on a graph. The other stat is how much total usenet postings drop over the period! ---
**Author:** ![MSEdward\_SEdS\_Bora](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@MSEdward\_SEdS\_Bora](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/MSEdward_SEdS_Bora)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yaml-yet-another-meaningless-languagepopularitystatisticals/89539/3 "2007-03-21T14:27:25Z")
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote: > see them on a graph. > > The other stat is how much total usenet postings drop over the period! The other thing I found interesting is that Erlang isn’t on any of the lists. Do they not even have a Usenet group? – M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P) [http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/](http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/) If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given rabbits fire. ---
**Author:** ![MSEdward\_SEdS\_Bora](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@MSEdward\_SEdS\_Bora](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/MSEdward_SEdS_Bora)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 8:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yaml-yet-another-meaningless-languagepopularitystatisticals/89539/4 "2007-03-21T20:40:29Z")
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:17:14PM +0900, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote: > The other stat is how much total usenet postings drop over the period! Actually, I found that the most interesting thing about that page – the visible trend in Usenet use across all the listed languages. The significant drops in Usenet activity, and the varying cultural differences between languages with regard to Usenet, all make a Usenet activity survey an extremely unreliable measure of language popularity (unless the only population whose interest in various programming languages you care about is Usenet users). The movement of various languages in the Usenet activity rankings could, in combination with a more universal measure, provide an interesting bit of information about the cultures of various language communities, though.