Alex Francis wrote: > 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." >
Maybe we should put this on the front page? Wait a minute... Does the date correspond with that blogging challenge? Lyle _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
