Fun, but far from scientific!
http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2009/05/the-programming-language-with-the-happiest-users/
extract:
"I decided to do a little market research. I scraped the top 150 most
recent tweets on Twitter for the query “X language” where X was one of
{COBOL, Ruby, Fortran, Python, Visual Basic, Perl, Java, Haskell,
Lisp, C}.
"Then I asked three people on Amazon Mechanical Turk to verify that
the tweet was on the topic. If so, I asked if the tweet seemed
positive, negative or neutral"
...
"I am not surprised that COBOL was the least favorite, but I am
somewhat surprised that Perl was the favorite. Sifting through the
data, unlike other languages, there seem to be a surprising number of
people that just felt like giving Perl shoutouts."
Alex
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