old style VB might make the happiest coders, puts me in the mind of blissful naive days of coding without being in search of The Right Way. BASIC programmers get stuff done. I suspect that there is more stuff done everyday in some variant of VB than by all of the "non-programmers" (accountants, small buisness owners, teachers) than all of the real programmers out there.
Java programmers are probably the least happy next to COBOL i would suspect.. C programers might be really quite happy. I'm noodling with Python, it it seems to fit my personality and ideals. Perl seems to have much more of a cool factor though I will admit that. I challenge you try to find a coder who has used Delphi and did not like it.. --- On Fri, 4/9/09, Lyle <[email protected]> wrote: From: Lyle <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [BristolBathPM] The Programming Language with the Happiest Users ? To: "Bristol and Bath Perl M[ou]ngers" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, 4 September, 2009, 3:19 PM 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
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