On 10 December 2010 23:40, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, as takeshi said, the research isn't trying to determine the > popularity of programming languages, it is attempting to establish a link > between github projects and stackoverflow questions, and makes a compelling > case that they are. > > There are some pitfalls when using these numbers to determine popularity. > There are other channels; I doubt every programming language has the same > percentage of its users that use stack overflow. For example, #python on > freenode tends to contain ~750 people. ##java only ~350. Does this mean > python is more popular than java? Probably not. (#vb contains 17 right now, > just for laughs). > > I think that's showing a totally different relationship... The correlation between the language your company uses, and the likelihood of them having a firewall that blocks IRC. I wonder how many of those Pythonistas come from Google :) > -- > 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- Kevin Wright mail / gtalk / msn : [email protected] pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- 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.
