2010/12/10 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]>: > This simple fact is enough to make the whole graph look very questionable to > me. > There is a staggering amount of software written in Visual Basic, even if > you break it down by individual versions. There is no way that the Scala > code base can come even remotely close to that.
What does the popularity of a programming language have to do with its installed base? I don't think there is even an implicit claim that there is more scala code out "in the wild" than there is vb. There is, however, a direct claim that there is more stuff tagged as such in both stack overflow and in github. That is something you can verify. If you were to chart out a graph that had lines of code written on the paycheck, I would expect to see scala plummet. Of course, I might expect some other languages that people don't like to start rising. More amusingly, chart out languages used in CS research projects. I would think Haskel would start rising there. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
