I stumbled across this site today:
http://www.langpop.com/
it provides a clean presentation of programming language popularity. IMO,
"popularity" is well thought out and researched, and several different views
are presented (e.g. theoretical discussion vs commerical application, sites
mentioning the language vs code-complete open source applications
published), and are broadly consistent.
This quote piqued my interest:
It's interesting to note how languages like Haskell and Erlang are
talked about a lot,
despite scoring fairly low on the normalized popularity chart above.
People are
interested in them, but haven't begun to use them on a large scale yet.
I feel that J falls in this category (though it isn't even as "academically
popular" as Lisp).
One more site I find interesting:
http://www.google.com/codesearch
allows you to search for source code published on the web (even using
regular expressions). They do not yet support J, and I'm trying to figure
out what the procedure is to convince them to add it. Here's a list of
languages they do support
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=75252&ctx=sibling
In Raul's words: FYI,
-Dan
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