Two of Nikolaus Wirth's papers are very well worth reading in the
context of the current discussion.
http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Articles/GoodIdeas_origFig.pdf
http://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf
By coincidence, the IEEE Spectrum journal just ranked the 49 most
frequently cited programming languages out of 150 found on GitHub
with mixed techniques.
See:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/interactive-the-top-programming-languages
Click on Show Extended Ranking to get the whole list.
The graph is unsurprisingly an inverted "Tower of Babel". :-D
The ranking methods used at IEEE are described at:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/ns/IEEE_TPL/methods.html
Other ranking methods which give similar results are described at:
https://sites.google.com/site/pydatalog/pypl/PyPL-PopularitY-of-Programming-Language
and
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
To quote Wirth's quotes from 1995:
"Software expands to fill the available memory. (Parkinson)"
"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.(Reiser)"
Irwin Scollar
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