I think that's more to do with the fact that the ##java operators are at times complete arseholes.
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Kevin Wright <[email protected]>wrote: > > > 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- 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.
